Dr. Nikos Pleros

As photonic integration is maturing, data communications and data interconnects are rapidly adopting optical communication technologies as their mainstream infrastructure in order to enable ultra-high speed data transport and switching in computer-, backplane-, board-to-board, inter-chip and eventually also intra-chip interconnects. My interest towards this direction has recently moved into the employment of plasmonics as a thermo-optic switching platform in order to enable Tb/s data router implementation. In addition, I have a strong interest in advancing optical RAM architectures and technologies allowing light to stop and to be retrieved at random access times with minimum possible latencies, so as to enable true bit-wise optical buffering for processing and switching purposes.

Relevant Publications

 

• D. Fitsios, K. Vyrsokinos and N. Pleros, “Transfer Function and Togglind Speed Analysis of an Optical Flip-Flop based on coupled SOA-MZIs”, Proceedings of IEEE/OSA Photonics in Switching (PiS) 2010, PWE6, Monterrey, CA, USA, 25-29 July 2010
• N. Pleros, D. Apostolopoulos, D. Petrantonakis, C. Stamatiadis and H. Avramopoulos, “Optical Static RAM cell”, IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 73-75,  Jan. 2009
• N. Pleros, D. Apostolopoulos, D. Petrantonakis, C. Stamatiadis, and H. Avramopoulos, “All-Optical Static RAM Cell with Read/Write functionality at 5 Gb/s”, Proceedings of 34th European Conf. On Optical Communication (ECOC) 2008, Vol. 3, We.2.C.5, pp. 107-108, Brussels, Belgium, Sept. 2008