Optical square-wave clock generation based on an all-optical flip-flop

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 489-491

  Kaplan, Aaron M ^a,b   Agrawal, Govind P ^c   Maywar, Drew N ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^e ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clocks; Flip flops; Optical bistability; Optical signal processing

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE COMPONENTS; ALL-OPTICAL; ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BISTABLES; CLOCK FREQUENCY; CROSS GAIN MODULATION; DC CURRENT; FLIP-FLOPS; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; OUTPUT POWER; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SQUARE-WAVE CLOCKS; TIME OF FLIGHT; TRAVELING WAVE;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION; FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CLOCKS;

EID: 77955187835     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2040997     Document Type: Article

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