All-optical flip flop based on a symmetric Mach-Zehnder switch with a feedback loop and multiple forward set/reset signals

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Le Minh, H ^a   Ghassemlooy, Z ^a   Ng, Wai Pang ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

All optical flip flop; Feedback loop; Symmetric Mach Zehnder switch

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK CONTROL; FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL DEVICES;

ALL-OPTICAL FLIP FLOP; FEEDBACK LOOP; MULTIPLE FORWARD SIGNAL; SYMMETRIC MACH-ZEHNDER SWITCH;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 34250713935     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2721773     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. F. Ramos, E. Kehayas, J. M. Martinez, R. Clavero, J. Marti, L. Stampoulidis, D. Tsiokos, H. Avramopoulos, J. Zhang, P. V. Holm-Niesen, N. Chi, P. Jeppersen, N. Caenegem, D. Colle, M. Pickavet, and B. R. Ti, "IST-LASAGNE: Towards all-optical label swapping employing optical logic gates and optical flip-flops," J. Lightwave Technol. 23, 2993-3011 (2005).
2. M. T. Hill, A. Srivatsa, N. Calabretta, Y. Liu, H. D. Waardt, G. D. Khoe, and H. J. S. Doren, "1 × 2 optical packet switch using all-optical header processing," Electron. Lett. 37, 774-775 (2001).
3. M. T. Hill, H. D. Waardt, G. D. Khoe, and H. J. S. Doren, "All-optical flip-flop based on coupled laser diodes," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 37, 405-413 (2001).
4. M. Takenaka, M. Raburn, and Y. Nakano, "All-optical flip-flop multimode interference bistable laser diode," IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett. 17, 968-970 (2005).
5. R. Clavero, F. Ramos, J. M. Martinez, and J. Marti, "All-optical flip-flop based on a single SOA-MZI," IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett. 17, 843-845 (2005).
6. B. C. Wang, V. Baby, W. Tong, L. Xu, M. Friedman, R. J. Runster, I. Glesk, and P. Prucnal, "A novel fast optical switch based on two cascaded terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexers (TOAD)," Opt. Express 10, 15-23 (2002).
7. Z. Ghassemlooy and R. Ngah, "Simulation of 1 × 2 OTDM router employing symmetric Mach-Zehnder switches," IEE Proc.: Circuits Devices Syst. 152, 171-177 (2005).
8. G. P. Agrawal and N. A. Olsson, "Self-phase modulation and spectral broadening of optical pulses in semiconductor laser amplifiers," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 25, 2297-2306 (1989).