Nonlinear dynamics of resonant tunneling optoelectronic circuits for wireless/optical interfaces

We report on experimental and modeling results on the nonlinear dynamics of a resonant-tunneling-diode-based(RTD) optoelectronic circuits that can be used as the basis of a wireless/optical interface for wireless access networks. The RTD-based circuits are optoelectronic integrated circuits that hav...

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Main Author: Romeira, Bruno (author)
Other Authors: Figueiredo, J. M. L. (author), Slight, Thomas James (author), Wang, Liquan (author), Wasige, Edward (author), Ironside, C. N. (author), Kelly, Anthony E. (author), Green, Richard (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/1203
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:sapientia.ualg.pt:10400.1/1203
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Summary:We report on experimental and modeling results on the nonlinear dynamics of a resonant-tunneling-diode-based(RTD) optoelectronic circuits that can be used as the basis of a wireless/optical interface for wireless access networks. The RTD-based circuits are optoelectronic integrated circuits that have negative differential resistance and act as optoelectronic voltage-controlled oscillators. These circuits display many of the features of classic nonlinear dynamics, including chaos and synchronization. These highly nonlinear oscillators behaves as injection-locked oscillators that can be synchronized by a small injection signal of either wireless or optical origin, and thus, can transfer phase encoded information from wireless to the optical domain or the optical to the wireless domain.