Ultrafast Bit and Byte addressing of All-Optical Memory based on Microring Resonators for Next-Generation Optical Networks

Author

Huang, Yingyan ; Ho, Seng-Tiong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL

fYear

2006

fDate

24-27 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We present a novel ultrafast all-optical memory scheme that has the potential to meet the demanding requirement for 100 Gb/s all-optical data storage. The all-optical memory integrates an all-optical ring resonator flip-flop with an innovative GMCI (gain manipulation of coupler interference) based all-optical switch for ultrafast READ and WRITE. The potential device performance advantages include very low operating power for the memory element (<50 muW per bit), low read-write power for the GMCI based all-optical switch (<0.5-5 mW), ultrafast operation (10-100 Gbit/s), very compact size (<10 mumtimes10 mum per bit), addressable at bit or byte level, and monolithically integrated on InP chip

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; flip-flops; high-speed optical techniques; indium compounds; integrated optics; micro-optomechanical devices; micromechanical resonators; optical couplers; optical resonators; optical storage; optical switches; 100 Gbit/s; InP; all-optical microring resonator flip-flop; all-optical switch; coupler interference; gain manipulation; monolithically integrated all-optical memory; next-generation optical networks; ultrafast bit addressing; ultrafast byte addressing; Clocks; Next generation networking; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Optical resonators; Optical ring resonators; Read-write memory; Space vector pulse width modulation; Switches; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication & Optoelectronic Exposition & Conference, 2006. AOE 2006. Asian

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-0-9789217-0-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AOE.2006.307321

Filename

4100031