Low-switching-energy and high-repetition-frequency all-optical flip-flop operations of a polarization bistable vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Mori, Takashi ^a   Yamayoshi, Yasuhiro ^a,b   Kawaguchi, Hitoshi ^a,b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; LASER BEAMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; POLARIZATION;

FLIP-FLOP OPERATIONS; HIGH-REPETITION-FREQUENCY; LOW-SWITCHING-ENERGY; VCSEL;

SWITCHING;

EID: 33644887452     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2181192     Document Type: Article

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