All-optical clocked flip-flops exploiting SOA-based SR latches and logic gates

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5882 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 5-18

  Wang, Jing ^a   Meloni, Gianluca ^b   Berrettini, Gianluca ^c   Potì, Luca ^b   Bogoni, Antonella ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CNIT   (Italy)

^c SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Optical flip flop; Optical logic gate; Optical signal processing; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; BISTABLES; CROSS GAIN MODULATION; DIGITAL APPLICATIONS; DIGITAL PROCESSING; EXTINCTION RATIOS; FEASIBLE SOLUTION; FIBER-RING LASERS; FLIP-FLOP OPERATION; KEY COMPONENT; NEXT GENERATION OPTICAL NETWORKS; NONLINEAR EFFECT; OPERATION SPEED; OPTICAL FLIP-FLOP; OPTICAL LOGIC GATE; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PHOTONIC INTEGRATIONS; QUENCHING MECHANISMS; REFERENCE CLOCK; SIGNAL SYNCHRONIZATION;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LOGIC GATES; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; QUENCHING; RING LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS;

EID: 70549113576     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10442-8_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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