All-optical memory based on injection-locking bistability in photonic crystal lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3387-3395

  Chen, Chin Hui ^a   Matsuo, Shinji ^a   Nozaki, Kengo ^b   Shinya, Akihiko ^b   Sato, Tomonari ^a   Kawaguchi, Yoshihiro ^a   Sumikura, Hisashi ^b   Notomi, Masaya ^b  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; LASERS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PUMPS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ACTIVE REGIONS; ALL-OPTICAL MEMORY; BI-STABILITY; BISTABLES; BURIED HETEROSTRUCTURES; DYNAMIC MEMORY; FAST SWITCHING; INGAASP/INP; INJECTION-LOCKING; OPTICAL INJECTION LOCKING; OPTICAL MEMORY; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL LASER; PUMP POWER; SWITCHING POWER;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 79951638758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.003387     Document Type: Article

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