• DocumentCode
    808044
  • Title

    Gigahertz all-optical flip-flop operation of polarisation-bistable vertical-cavity surface emitting lasers

  • Author

    Kawaguchi, H. ; Hidayat, I.S.

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Eng., Yamagata Univ., Japan
  • Volume
    31
  • Issue
    14
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    7/6/1995 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1150
  • Lastpage
    1151
  • Abstract
    The authors have successfully demonstrated a 1.2 GHz all-optical flip-flop operation using vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers by injecting optical trigger pulses having two orthogonal polarisations. The physical mechanism of this flip-flop operation is the pitchfork bifurcation polarisation bistability created by the gain saturation in semiconductor lasers
  • Keywords
    bifurcation; flip-flops; laser cavity resonators; light polarisation; optical bistability; optical logic; optical saturation; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; gain saturation; gigahertz all-optical flip-flop operation; optical trigger pulse injection; orthogonal polarisations; physical mechanism; pitchfork bifurcation polarisation bistability; polarisation-bistable vertical-cavity surface emitting lasers; semiconductor lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19950797
  • Filename
    398588