Robust optical control of an optical-amplifier-based flip-flop

Optics Express

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 75-80

  Maywar, D N ^a   Agrawal, G P ^a   Nakano, Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMULTIPLEXING; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ALL-OPTICAL DEVICES; CROSS-PHASE MODULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS;

EID: 0003162083     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.6.000075     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. R.-P. Braun, C. Caspar, H. -M. Foisel, K. Heimes, B. Strebel, N. Keil, and H. H. Yao, "Transparent switching node for optical frequency division multiplexed signals," Electron Lett. 29, 912-913 (1993).
2. J. Leuthold, P. A. Besse, J. Eckner, E. Gamper, M. Duelk, and H. Melchior, "All-optical space switches with gain and principally ideal extinction ratios," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 34, 622-633 (1998).
3. R. Hess, M. Duelk, W. Vogt, E. Gamper, E. Gini, P. A. Besse, H. Melchior, K. S. Jepsen, B. Mikkelsen, M. Vaa, H. N. Poulsen, A. T. Clausen, K. E. Stubkjaer, S. Bouchoule, and F. Devaux, "Simultaneous all-optical add and drop multiplexing of 40 Gbit/s OTDM signals using monolithically integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer," Electron Lett. 34, 579-80 (1998).
4. T. Durhuus, C. Joergensen, B. Mikkelsen, R. J. S. Pedersen, and K. E. Stubkjaer, "All optical wavelength conversion by SOA's in a Mach-Zehnder configuration," IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett. 6 53-55, (1994).
5. H. Kawaguchi, I. H. White, M. J. Offside, and J. E. Carrol, "Ultrafast switching in polarization-bistable laser diodes," Opt. Lett. 17, 130-132 (1992).
6. K. Nonaka, H. Tsuda, H. Uenohara, H. Iwamura, and T. Kurokawa, "Optical nonlinear characteristics of a side-injection light-controlled laser diode with a multiple-quantum-well saturable absorption region," IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett. 5, 139-141 (1993).
7. N. Ogasawara and R. Ito, "Static and dynamic properties of nonlinear semiconductor lasers amplifiers," Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 25, L739-L742 (1986).
8. K. Inoue, "All-optical flip-flop operation in an optical bistable device using two lights of different frequencies," Opt. Lett. 12, 918-920 (1987).
9. D. N. Maywar and G. P. Agrawal, "Low-power all-optical switching in active semiconductor chirped periodic structures," Opt. Express 3, 440-446 (1998). http://epubs.osa.org/oearchive/pdf/6998.pdf
10. A. E. Willner and W. Shieh, "Optimal spectral and power parameters for all-optical wavelength shifting - single stage, fanout, and cascadability," IEEE J. Lightwave Tech. 13, 771-781 (1995).
11. I. Cha, M. Kitamura, H. Honmou, and I. Mito, "1.5 μm band travelling-wave semiconductor optical amplifiers with window facet structure," Electron. Lett. 25, 1241-1242 (1989).
12. M. J. Adams, D. A. O. Davies, M. C. Tatham, and M. A. Fisher, "Nonlinearities in semiconductor laser amplifiers," Opt. Quantum Electron. 27, 1-13 (1995).
13. R. J. Manning, and D. A. O. Davies, and J. K. Lucek, "Recovery rates in semiconductor laser amplifiers: Optical and electrical bias dependencies," Electron. Lett. 30, 1233-1234 (1994).