All-optical flip-flop based on vertical cavity semiconductor optical amplifiers

被引：7

作者：

Song, Deqiang ^{[1
]}

Gauss, Veronica ^{[1
]}

Zhang, Haijiang ^{[1
]}

Gross, Matthias ^{[1
]}

Wen, Pengyue ^{[1
]}

Esener, Sadik ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA

来源：

OPTICS LETTERS | 2007年 / 32卷 / 20期

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D O I：

10.1364/OL.32.002969

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We report the operation of an all-optical set-reset (SR) flip-flop based on vertical cavity semiconductor optical amplifiers (VCSOAs). This flip-flop is cascadable, has low optical switching power (similar to 10 mu W), and has the potential to be integrated on a small footprint (similar to 100 mu m(2)). The flip-flop is composed of two cross-coupled electrically pumped VCSOA inverters and uses the principles of cross-gain modulation, polarization gain anisotropy, and highly nonlinear gain characteristics to achieve flip-flop functionality. We believe that, when integrated on chip, this type of all-optical flip-flop opens new prospects for implementing all-optical fast memories and timing regeneration circuits. (C) 2007 Optical Society of America

引用

页码：2969 / 2971

页数：3

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