Electrostatically actuated Micro-Electro-MechanicalSystems (MEMS) based micromirror is a fundamental building block for a variety of optical network applications, such as optical wavelength-selective switching, add/drop multiplexing, and optical cross-connecting. The design, analysis and testing of a 2-Dimensional (2D) electrostatically actuated torsional MEMS micromirror is presented in this p...

The graphical user interface (GUI) of COMSOL Multiphysics offers an effective environment to get started solving problems. For reproducibility of the results, it is often desirable to explore the script-based modeling capabilities of COMSOL with MATLAB. There are also potential benefits of running COMSOL in parallel, specifically by running several computational threads in shared-memory paralle...

Seven all-optical logic gates based on hybrid plasmonic squared-shaped nanoring resonators and strips are proposed, designed, numerically analyzed using finite element method with COMSOL software package version 5.5. Constructive destructive interferences between the input port(s) control main operating principles used to produce proposed gates. The ratio of output optical power at a single por...

An optical package for mounting VCSEL and PIN diodes for transmitting and receiving optical signals has been developed. The diodes couple to the fibers in a commercial MT connector. The package is quite compact with its physical size significantly smaller than that of the MT connector. This design simplifies the testing and assembly of the optical components because the MT connector with the lo...

We demonstrate 10Gbit/s operation of two different types of monolithic photocurrent driven wavelength converters (PD-WC). These photonic integrated circuits use a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA)-PIN photodetector receiver to drive an Electro-absorption (EA), or Mach-Zehnder (MZ) modulator that is integrated with a SGDBR tunable laser. We demonstrate improvements in optical bandwidth, inse...

This paper describes the recent advances in semiconductor photodiodes for use in ultra-high-speed optical systems. We developed two types of waveguide photodiodes (WG-PD) — an evanescently coupled waveguide photodiode (EC-WG-PD) and a separated-absorption-andmultiplication waveguide avalanche photodiode (WG-APD). The EC-WGPD is very robust under high optical input operation because of its distr...

Abstract: In this paper, we aim to design and propose a novel structure for all-opticalhalf subtractor based on the photonic crystal. The structure includes two optical switches,one power splitter, and one power combiner. The optical switches are made of theresonant rings which use the nonlinear rods for dropping operation. The footprint of thedesigned structure is about...

Ring resonators have always been referred to as a highly flexible structurefor designing optical devices. In this study, we have designed and simulation a fourchannel optical demultiplexer using square photonic crystal ring resonator. The squarelattice constant for this purpose structure is used. The purposed structure has an averagecrosstalk, transmission coefficient, q...

Today's high-capacity telecommunication systems are unimaginable without the use of optical fibres and accompanying optical components which are briefly presented in this paper with an accent on the receivers of optical signal. An overview of main characteristics of the key elements and the description of the most popular modulation formats in modern optical systems is shown. Some achievements ...