All-optical memory operation of 980-nm polarization bistable VCSEL for 20-Gb/s PRBS RZ and 40-Gb/s NRZ data signals

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 12362-12370

  Sakaguchi, Jun ^a   Katayama, Takeo ^a   Kawaguchi, Hitoshi ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; LASERS; RING LASERS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

20 GB/S; 40 GB/S; ALL-OPTICAL; ALL-OPTICAL MEMORY; BISTABLES; DATA SIGNALS; FREQUENCY DETUNING; FUTURE NETWORKS; HIGH POTENTIAL; INPUT SIGNAL POWER; MEMORY OPERATIONS; NONRETURN TO ZERO SIGNAL; OPERATING CONDITION; OPTICAL MEMORY; OPTIMUM CONDITIONS; POLARIZATION BISTABILITY; PSEUDO RANDOM BIT SEQUENCES; RETURN-TO-ZERO SIGNALS; ULTRA-FAST; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 77953580627     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.012362     Document Type: Article

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