• DocumentCode
    1679716
  • Title

    All optical flip flop with two coupled travelling waveguide SOA-XGM switches

  • Author

    Vagionas, C. ; Fitsios, D. ; Kanellos, G.T. ; Pleros, N. ; Miliou, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf., Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a novel optical SR-flip flop with simple architecture, employing only two SOA XGM switches. Proof-of-principle operation is experimentally demonstrated at 8 Mb/s and numerically evaluated at 10 Gb/s.
  • Keywords
    flip-flops; optical couplers; optical logic; optical modulation; optical switches; optical waveguides; semiconductor optical amplifiers; all optical flip flop; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 8 Mbit/s; coupled travelling waveguide SOA-XGM switches; cross-gain modulation; optical SR-flip flop; semiconductor optical amplifier; Optical bistability; Optical coupling; Optical polarization; Optical pulses; Random access memory; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6326643