All-optical clocked flip-flops and binary counting operation using SOA-Based SR latch and logic gates

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1486-1494

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

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National Interuniversity Consortium for Telecommunications   (Italy)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Optical flip flop; optical logic gates; optical signal processing; semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE ELEMENTS; ADVANCED SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALL-OPTICAL; BINARY COUNTERS; COUNTING RATES; CROSS GAIN MODULATION; DIGITAL SYSTEM; ENERGY EFFICIENT; EXTINCTION RATIOS; HIGH-SPEED; KEY COMPONENT; NEXT GENERATION OPTICAL NETWORKS; NONLINEAR EFFECT; OPTICAL COMPUTING; OPTICAL FLIP-FLOP; OPTICAL LOGIC GATE; OPTICAL SIGNALS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATIONS; PHOTONIC LOGIC; QUENCHING MECHANISMS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA); SWITCHING ENERGY;

DIGITAL DEVICES; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LOGIC GATES; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; RING LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 77957826507     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2039199     Document Type: Article

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