Sep 2013, Volume 6 Issue 3
    

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  • RESEARCH ARTICLE
    Bin WEI, Zhengmao WU, Tao DENG, Guangqiong XIA

    Based on spin-flip model (SFM), the nonlinear dynamics of 1550 nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) subject to polarization-preserved optical feedback (PPOF) and orthogonal optical injection (OOI) are theoretically investigated. The results show that two linear polarization (LP) modes can be simultaneously stimulated and polarization switching (PS) can be observed, which is different from the case that only y LP mode exists in a VCSEL with PPOF. Under the joint action of PPOF and OOI, the two LP modes will exhibit rich dynamical states, such as period one, period two, multi-period and chaos oscillation. Different evolution routes to chaos can be also observed. Moreover, frequency detuning Δff = fm - fs, where fm and fs are the center frequencies of free-running master VCSEL and slave VCSEL, respectively) has an obvious influence on the PS. With the increase of the positive frequency detuning PS points shift toward larger injection strengths; meanwhile, a suitable negative frequency detuning value makes the injection strength for PS be the lowest.

  • RESEARCH ARTICLE
    Zhaosheng YANG, Jin WU, Zhilong ZHAO, Donglei WANG, Yuanyuan SU, Na LIANG

    Due to the short laser wavelength, almost all practical targets are rough. Surface elevations in rough targets will result in layovers in synthetic aperture ladar (SAL). High resolution SAL image with layovers will be different from the target picture taken by incoherent tools as digital camera. To investigate the layovers in SAL image, a simplified mathematical model is built by optics diffraction theory and a laboratory SAL is setup using 1550 nm tunable laser source. Layovers in SAL images, in both theoretical simulation and experimental demonstration, are carefully observed. Detailed results on various targets are illustrated.

  • RESEARCH ARTICLE
    Xiaoliu ZUO, Zhijun SUN

    This paper investigated characteristics of hybrid surface plasmon waveguiding modes in metal-clad Si/SiO2 waveguide. Mode characteristics are shown to be highly dependent on structure dimensions and polarization states. By controlling the structure dimensions, a compromise between propagation loss and field confinement can be made for the waveguiding modes. Here, the waveguide had been particularly designed to have very low loss, in which power is mainly confined in the high-index Si-core region to propagate. This waveguide showed excellent bending, isolation and coupling properties that is suitable for high-density integrated photonic circuits.

  • RESEARCH ARTICLE
    Yajuan ZHENG, Xiangbin ZENG, Xiaohu SUN, Diqiu HUANG

    The influence of substrate temperature on microstructure, electrical and optical properties of in situ-textured zinc oxide (ZnO) films fabricated by metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOVCD) had been investigated. Results indicated that the substrate temperature played a very important role on preparation of ZnO thin film. With the raising of temperature, firstly ZnO crystals were perpendicular to the substrate, then they were grown inclining toward the substrate, finally ZnO crystals grown in layers but not regular. Consequently, ZnO film surface morphology changed from smooth to a pyramid structure and then disappeared little by little. Moreover, it was also found in this study that ZnO film was characterized with high crystallinity, low resistivity (2.17 × 10-2) and high transmittance (>80%). These results suggested that ZnO thin film is suitable for front electrode of silicon thin film solar cell.

  • RESEARCH ARTICLE
    Kambiz ABEDI

    This paper reports a detailed theoretical investigation of strain effects on the performance of electroabsorption optical modulators based on the asymmetric intra-step-barrier coupled double strained quantum wells (AICD-SQWs) active layer. For this purpose, the electroabsorption coefficient was calculated over a range of AICD-SQWs strain from compressive to tensile strain. Then, the extinction ratio (ER) and insertion loss parameters were evaluated from calculated electroabsorption coefficient for transverse electric (TE) input light polarization. The results of the simulation suggest that the tensile strain from 0.05% to 0.2% strain in the wide quantum well has a significant impact on the ER and insertion loss as compared with compressive strain, whereas the compressive strain of the narrow quantum well from -0.5% to -0.7% strain has a more pronounced impact on the improvement of the ER and insertion loss as compared with tensile strain.

  • RESEARCH ARTICLE
    Kambiz ABEDI, Habib VAHIDI

    In this paper, a polymer electro-optic modulator has been designed and optimized using the full vectorial finite element method. For this purpose, the effects of magnesium oxide (MgO) and down cladding thicknesses, distance between two ground electrodes, hot electrode and modulator widths modulator on the key modulator parameters, such as microwave effective index nm, the characteristic impedance ZC and the microwave losses α are presented. After selecting optimal dimensions of polymer electro-optic modulator, frequency dependent aforementioned parameters and the half-wave voltage-length product (VπL) parameter of polymer electro-optic modulator are extracted and as a consequence, an optimized design is reported. Finally, the optical and electrical modulation responses of polymer electro-optic modulator are calculated. The optimized polymer electro-optic modulator exhibits 3-dB electrical bandwidth of 260 GHz and VπL about 2.8 V?cm in this frequency.

  • RESEARCH ARTICLE
    Yashar E. MONFARED, A. MOJTAHEDINIA, A. R. MALEKI JAVAN, A. R. MONAJATI KASHANI

    In this paper, a new structure of highly nonlinear low dispersion photonic crystal fiber (HN-PCF) by elliptical concentration of GeO2 in the PCF core has been proposed. Using finite difference time domain (FDTD) method, we have analyzed the dispersion properties and effective mode area in the HN-PCF. Simulative results show that the dispersion variation is within±0.65 ps/(nm?km) in C-band, especially 0.24 ps/(nm?km) in 1.55 μm wavelength. Effective area and nonlinear coefficient are 1.764 μm2 and 72.6 W-1?km-1 respectively at 1.55 μm wavelength. The proposed PCF demonstrates high nonlinear coefficient, ultra small effective mode area and nearly-zero flattened dispersion characteristics over C-band, which can have important application in all-optical wavelength conversion based on four wave mixing (FWM).

  • RESEARCH ARTICLE
    Lubna NADEEM, Rameez ASIF

    In this paper, a technique was numerically implemented to generate a frequency shift keying (FSK) radio-over-fiber (RoF) signal in optical domain. Due to the oscillator free generation of FSK signal, this scheme is highly stable with reduced complexity and extremely cost effective. The remote heterodyne detection method was used to detect the signal, where beating occurs to detect the FSK signal. With this scheme, it is able to efficiently generate FSK signal in the range of 60 and 75 GHz at 8 Gbit/s and effectively transmit it over 80 km link without degrading the signal shape and quality. The nonlinear threshold (NLT) point of the system has also been numerically analyzed to estimate the nonlinear tolerance of the system. Besides, the impact of transmission distance and polarization mode dispersion (PMD) was evaluated. Furthermore, the wavelength reuse for the uplink was implemented in the scheme by reusing the same wavelength for uplink that was used for signal generation at downlink. The whole process was performed in optical domain. Thus this scheme is very cost effective as the overall architecture of RoF system is simplified.

  • RESEARCH ARTICLE
    Bushra NAWAZ, Rameez ASIF

    This paper has designed 2-channel dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) chaotic system at the frequencies of 193.1 and 193.2 THz, respectively. The optical chaotic signals were produced by using the semiconductor laser that is numerically modeled by employing laser rate equations. These two channels were multiplexed and then propagated through single mode optical fiber (SMF) of 80 km length with dispersion compensating fiber of 16 km length. Erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) was used to compensate the power losses in the SMF. In this paper, we investigated the effects of polarization mode dispersion (PMD) and nonlinearities especially stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) on 2 channel DWDM chaotic communication system by varying the length of the SMF and value of differential group delay (DGD).

  • RESEARCH ARTICLE
    Bipin Kumar VERMA, Shyam Babu SINGH, Shyam AKASHE

    Multi-threshold complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (MTCMOS) is often used to reduce the leakage current in idle circuit. Ground bounce noise produced during a transition mode (sleep-to-active) is an important challenge in MTCMOS. In this paper, various noise-aware combinational MTCMOS circuit was used to evaluate the ground bounce noise. An intermediate mode was applied in the sleep-to-active mode transition to reduce the charge stored on virtual lines to real ground. The dependence of ground bounce noise on voltage, transistor size and temperature was investigated with different MTCMOS circuit technique. The peak amplitude of ground bounce noise was reduced up to 78.82%. The leakage current of the circuit was decreased up to 99.73% and the active power of the circuit was reduced up to 62.32%. Simulation of multiplier with different MTCMOS circuit techniques was performed on 45 nm CMOS technology.

  • RESEARCH ARTICLE
    Akansha SHRIVASTAVA, Anshul SAXENA, Shyam AKASHE

    In complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) nanoscale technology, power dissipation is becoming important metric. In this work low leakage voltage controlled ring oscillator circuit system was proposed for critical communication systems with high oscillation frequency. An ideal approach has been presented with substrate biasing technique for reduction of power consumption. The simulation have been completed using cadence virtuoso 45 nm standard CMOS technology at room temperature 27°C with supply voltage Vdd = 0.7 V. The simulation results suggest that voltage controlled ring oscillator has characterized with efficient low power voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) in term of minimum leakage power (1.23 nW) and maximum oscillation frequency (4.76 GHz) with joint positive channel metal oxide semiconductor and negative channel metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS and NMOS) reverse substrate bias technique. PMOS, NMOS and joint reverse body bias techniques have been compared in the presented work.

  • RESEARCH ARTICLE
    Somaye SERAJMOHAMMADI, Hamed ALIPOUR-BANAEI

    In this paper, the photonic band gap (PBG) properties of two dimensional (2D) square lattice photonic crystal structures composed of rectangular cells were studied. The effect of refractive index, rectangles length and the ratio of width to length of the rectangles on the PBG properties of the structure with different configurations was investigated. It is found that the density of gaps in both modes (transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM)) is high for structure composed of rectangular dielectric rods in air, while the density of the gaps is very low for structure composed of rectangular air pores in dielectric material.

  • ERRATUM
    Kaushik BRAHMACHARI, Mina RAY