Title :
Magnetically controllable hysteresis loop in semiconductor nonreciprocal bistable lasers
Author :
Uehara, K. ; Tazawa, K. ; Shimizu, H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Tokyo Univ. of Agric. & Technol., Koganei, Japan
Abstract :
We report fabrication and characterization of the nonreciprocal semiconductor bistable laser diodes. The devices exhibited bistable laser oscillations which were modulated by magnetization reversal. Magnetically controllable bistability is useful to realize reconfigurable optical flip-flop memories.
Keywords :
hysteresis; laser stability; magnetisation reversal; magneto-optical effects; optical logic; semiconductor lasers; bistable laser diodes; bistable laser oscillations; magnetically controllable bistability; magnetically controllable hysteresis loop; magnetization reversal; reconfigurable optical flip-flop memories; semiconductor nonreciprocal bistable lasers; Magnetic hysteresis; Optical bistability; Optical device fabrication; Optical waveguides; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2012 17th
Conference_Location :
Busan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0976-9
Electronic_ISBN :
2166-8884
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2012.6276659