Fast all-optical flip-flop memory exploiting the electric field nonlinearity of coherent laser amplifiers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 509-516

  Oksanen, Jani ^a   Tulkki, Jukka ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Laser amplifiers; Optical bistability; Optical memory

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; CARRIER DENSITY; CARRIER POPULATION; CAVITY MODE; DEVICE APPLICATION; LASER AMPLIFIERS; LASER THRESHOLD; NON-LINEARITY; OPTICAL FLIP-FLOP; OPTICAL MEMORY; RATE-EQUATION MODELS; REFERENCE FIELD; STABLE STATE; SWITCHING TIME;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; NONLINEAR FEEDBACK;

FEEDBACK;

EID: 33847618131     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2006.874004     Document Type: Article

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