SELF-LINEARIZED ANALOG DIFFERENTIAL SELF-ELECTRO-OPTIC-EFFECT DEVICE

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作者
DESOUZA, EA [1 ]
CARRARESI, L [1 ]
BOYD, GD [1 ]
MILLER, DAB [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV FLORENCE, DEPT PHYS, I-50125 FLORENCE, ITALY
来源
APPLIED OPTICS | 1994年 / 33卷 / 08期
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10.1364/AO.33.001492
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We describe, demonstrate, and characterize an analog self-electro-optic-effect device that gives a difference between two optical output powers that is linearly proportional to an electrical or an optical drive. Such a device should permit bipolar (positive and negative) processing in novel image processing arrays. The device is able to operate over a range of more than 4 orders of magnitude of optical power from 50 nW to 2.5 mW, corresponding to uniform incident intensities as low as 3.3 MW/cm2. The frequency response (3-dB limit) varies linearly from 7 kHz at 1-muW absorber power to 3.5 MHz at 1 mW of absorbed powers.
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页码:1492 / 1497
页数:6
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