• DocumentCode
    3384382
  • Title

    All-optical flip-flops using injection-locked Fabry-Perot laser diodes

  • Author

    Won, Y.H. ; Cho, J.S. ; Jeong, Y.D. ; Hoang, N.L.

  • Author_Institution
    Inf. & Commun. Univ., Daejeon
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    19-22 Aug. 2007
  • Firstpage
    147
  • Lastpage
    148
  • Abstract
    All-optical flip-flops (AOFFs) using optical bistability of injection-locked Fabry-Perot laser diodes (FP-LDs) are demonstrated. To increase performance of the AOFF, single-mode FP-LDs are introduced. The single-mode FP-LD is used as an auxiliary beam source that sustains the state of AOFF or it is used as a state memory component itself to increase an on-off contrast ratio up to 35 dB.
  • Keywords
    Fabry-Perot interferometers; flip-flops; laser mode locking; optical logic; optical switches; semiconductor lasers; all-optical flip-flops; injection-locked Fabry-Perot laser diodes; Diode lasers; Fabry-Perot; Flip-flops; Hysteresis; Laser beams; Nonlinear optics; Optical bistability; Optical buffering; Optical interferometry; Optical signal processing; All-optical flip-flop; Fabry-Perot laser diode; injection locking;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics in Switching, 2007
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-1121-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1-4244-1122-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PS.2007.4300787
  • Filename
    4300787