• DocumentCode
    3031194
  • Title

    All-Optical Flip-Flop

  • Author

    Malacarne, Antonio ; Bogoni, Antonella ; Poti, Luca

  • Author_Institution
    CEIRC - Scuola Superiore Sant´´ Anna, Pisa
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    9-13 July 2006
  • Firstpage
    163
  • Lastpage
    164
  • Abstract
    Erbium-ytterbium doped fibre absorption and fluorescence are exploited to realize an optical bistable device. An all-optical flip-flop with 10 ns transition time, 18.48 nJ set and 19.82 nJ reset energies, is experimentally demonstrated.
  • Keywords
    erbium; flip-flops; optical fibre dispersion; optical logic; ytterbium; all-optical flip-flop; erbium-ytterbium doped fibre absorption; fluorescence; optical bistable device; Absorption; Flip-flops; Optical bistability; Optical buffering; Optical fiber polarization; Optical packet switching; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Internet and Next Generation Network, 2006. COIN-NGNCON 2006. The Joint International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Jeju
  • Print_ISBN
    978-89-955301-4-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-89-955301-4-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/COINNGNCON.2006.4454531
  • Filename
    4454531