Optical signal processing using MMI elements
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Cahill, Laurence W.; Le, Thanh T.
- Source
- 2008 10th Anniversary International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks Transparent Optical Networks, 2008. ICTON 2008. 10th Anniversary International Conference on. 4:114-117 Jun, 2008
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Signal Processing and Analysis
Optical signal processing
Optical waveguides
Logic gates
Integrated optics
Couplers
Optical imaging
Discrete cosine transforms
- Language
- ISSN
- 2162-7339
In the past, multimode interference (MMI) devices mostly have been used as couplers, combiners and simple switches. Recently, there has been much research interest in making modifications to the basic MMI structure in order to achieve much greater functionality. Of particular interest has been the possibility of implementing a variety of all-optical signal processing functions. This paper reviews recent novel advances with these devices and examines some of the possible signal processing applications.