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
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