Novel all-optical flip-flop using semiconductor optical amplifiers in innovative frequency-shifting inverse-threshold pairs

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1115-1120

  McAulay, Alastair D ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LOGIC CIRCUITS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

OPTICAL FLIP FLOPS; OPTICAL LOGIC; OPTICAL POSITIVE FEEDBACK; OPTICAL THRESHOLD; OPTICAL WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS;

EID: 3142697865     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1688386     Document Type: Article

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