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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics in Switching, 2007
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-1121-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-1122-X
DOI :
10.1109/PS.2007.4300787
