20 ps transition time all-optical SOA-based flip-flop used for photonic 10 Gb/s switching operation without any bit loss

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 808-815

  Malacarne, Antonio ^b   Wang, Jing ^c,d   Zhang, Yuancheng ^c,d   Barman, Abhirup Das ^b,d   Berrettini, Gianluca ^b,d   Potì, Luca ^a,b,d   Bogoni, Antonella ^d  

^a IEEE

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CNIT   (Italy)

Author keywords

All optical flip flop; Cross gain modulation (XGM); Optical bistable devices; Optical packet switching (OPS); Optical signal processing (OSP); Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)

Indexed keywords

CANNING; COMPUTER NETWORKS; FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; FUZZY LOGIC; LOGIC DEVICES; LOGIC GATES; MICROFLUIDICS; MODULATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; RING LASERS;

(140.3500) LASERS; (ALGORITHMIC) COMPLEXITY; (PL) PROPERTIES; 10 GB/ S; ALL OPTICAL FLIP FLOP; ALL-OPTICAL; ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; BI STABLE; CAVITY LENGTHS; CONTRAST RATIO (CR); CROSS PHASE MODULATION (PMD); CROSS-GAIN MODULATION (XGM); ERROR FREE OPERATIONS; EXTINCTION RATIO (ER); FALLING EDGE; HIGH CONTRAST RATIO; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; OPTICAL FLIP FLOPS; PHOTONIC; POWER PENALTIES; RISING TIME; SEMI CONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA); SWITCHING OPERATIONS; TRANSITION TIME; TRANSITION TIMES; ULTRA-FAST;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 45249116152     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.918654     Document Type: Article

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