Title :
Experimental demonstration of an optical packet gating using a monolithically-integrated InP SOA-MZI-type all-optical flip-flop circuit with a feedback loop
Author :
Naito, Y. ; Satoshi, S. ; Fukui, N. ; Kato, T. ; Kobayashi, K. ; Uenohara, H.
Author_Institution :
Precision & Intell. Lab., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Yokohama, Japan
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate an optical gating using cascaded monolithically integrated SOA-MZI-type all-optical flip-flop circuit with a feedback loop and an optical gate. Gating operation of optical packet at 10Gbps with an extinction ratio of 8.3dB was successfully achieved.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; indium compounds; integrated optics; optical communication equipment; optical feedback; optical logic; semiconductor optical amplifiers; InP; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; all optical flip-flop circuit; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; feedback loop; monolithically integrated SOA-MZI; optical gating; optical packet gating; semiconductor optical amplifier; Feedback loop; High speed optical techniques; Integrated optics; Optical buffering; Optical feedback; Optical packet switching; Optical pulses;
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.2012.6276692
