Title :
All-optical functions based on semiconductor ring lasers
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Abstract :
Bistable semiconductor ring lasers have been used as a universal photonic digital element to form all-optically reconfigurable combinatorial and sequential logic gates, all-optical regenerators, and all-optical random access memory with write and read functions.
Keywords :
laser stability; logic gates; optical repeaters; optical storage; ring lasers; semiconductor lasers; all-optical functions; all-optical random access memory; all-optical regenerators; all-optically reconfigurable combinatorial logic gates; bistable semiconductor ring lasers; sequential logic gates; universal photonic digital element; Logic gates; Optical attenuators; Optical bistability; Optical coupling; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Repeaters;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), 2010 Asia
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7111-9
DOI :
10.1109/ACP.2010.5682691
