Integrable multimode interference distributed bragg reflector laser all-optical flip-flops

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 1421-1423

  Raburn, Maura ^a,b   Takenaka, Mitsuru ^a,c,d   Takeda, Koji ^c   Song, Xueliang ^a,c   Barton, Jonathon S ^a,e   Nakano, Yoshiaki ^a,c,f  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b INFINERA CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d Optoelectronic Industry and Technology Development Association   (Japan)

^e University of California   (United States)

^f Japan Science and Technology Agency   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bistable laser diode (BLD); Distributed bragg reflector (DBR) lasers; Flip flop; Gain saturation; Multimode interference (MMI) coupler; Optical memory

Indexed keywords

BISTABLE LASER DIODES; CROSS GAIN SATURATION; MULTINIODC INTERFERENCE; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (PIC);

EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; MULTIMODE FIBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

BRAGG REFLECTORS;

EID: 33750731387     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.877569     Document Type: Article

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