Title :
All-Optical counter based on optical flip-flop and optical AND gate
Author :
Wang, Jing ; Meloni, Gianluca ; Berrettini, Gianluca ; Potì, Luca ; Bogoni, Antonella
Author_Institution :
Nat. Lab. of Photonic Networks, CNIT, Pisa, Italy
Abstract :
An all-optical counter is presented using cascaded stages composed by SOA fiber laser based optical flip-flops and SOA four wave mixing AND logic gates. Two-bit all-optical pulse counting and optical frequency division are demonstrated.
Keywords :
counting circuits; logic gates; multiwave mixing; optical fibre amplifiers; optical logic; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA fiber laser; all-optical counter; four wave mixing; optical AND logic gate; optical flip-flop; optical frequency division; two-bit all-optical pulse counting; Counting circuits; Fiber lasers; Flip-flops; Four-wave mixing; Logic gates; Optical fibers; Optical mixing; Optical pulses; Quantum cascade lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2009. ECOC '09. 35th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5096-1
