An ultra-small, low-power, all-optical flip-flop memory on a silicon chip

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 182-187

  Liu, Liu ^a,d   Kumar, Rajesh ^a   Huybrechts, Koen ^a   Spuesens, Thijs ^a   Roelkens, Günther ^a   Geluk, Erik Jan ^b   De Vries, Tjibbe ^b   Regreny, Philippe ^c   Van Thourhout, Dries ^a   Baets, Roel ^a   Morthier, Geert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL FLIP-FLOPS; ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; ELECTRICAL POWER CONSUMPTION; HETEROGENEOUS INTEGRATION; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS; TOTAL POWER CONSUMPTION;

FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

SILICON;

EID: 77950520948     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.268     Document Type: Article

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