July 9th, 2002

 

OECC 2002 Best Paper Award

Yoshiyasu Ueno and his coworkers (NEC Laboratories, Tsukuba, Japan) have received the OECC 2002 Best Paper Award in the ‘Optical Active Devices & Modules’ category of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC 2002), July 8-12, Yokohama. In the contributed paper, they have proposed a practical control scheme for the SMZ-type interferometric optical gate which has been proved to work at over 100 GHz. They have also shown their first successful results of the control scheme, with 168-Gb/s pseudorandom all-optical demultiplexing. The authors have suggested that this scheme would be useful more generally for many other types of interferometric all-optical gates, for realizing ultrafast optical signal processings in the near future.

Title: Control scheme for the optimization of the phase bias in the Symmetric-Mach-Zehnder all-optical switches

Authors: Y. Ueno, M. Takahashi, K. Suzuki, T. Shimizu, S. Nakamura, A. Furukawa, T. Tamanuki, K. Mori, S. Ae, T. Sasaki, and K. Tajima

   The OECC, annually held at an Asia-Pacific country, has grown up to the third-largest conference that covers optical communications components and systems. The OECC this year at Yokohama was sponsored by IEICE and technically sponsored by IEEE Comsoc, IEEE LEOS, OSA, and ISOE. The increasing numbers of papers and attendees were 320 and 500-600, respectively.

Yoshiyasu Ueno 

University of Electro-Communications

Department of Electronic Engineering

 

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