An all optical addressing circuit: experimental results and scalability analysis

The authors present results from two laboratory experiments of both single and parallel selection in a one of four optical addressing circuit operating at 250 MHz using coincident pulse addressing. The first experiment is an examination of the coincident pulse power, as a function of the synchronization of the arriving pulses. The second experiment demonstrates the ability to select arbitrary subsets of the detectors with a select pulse train operating at 250 MHz. The two experiments contrast the temporal and physical scalability of coincident pulse systems and show that the dominant effects are power distribution limits on the physical scale of these systems