• DocumentCode
    1828932
  • Title

    Extremely wide and uniform hysteresis windows (32mA) for integrated optical RAM using novel active MMI-BLD

  • Author

    Bastawrous, H.A. ; Jiang, H. ; Tahara, Y. ; Matsuo, S. ; Hamamoto, K.

  • Author_Institution
    Interdiscipl. Grad. Sch. of Eng. Sci. (I-EggS), Kyushu Univ., Kasuga
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    22-26 March 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Integrated optical RAM showed extremely wide and uniform hysteresis windows of 32 mA plusmn 2 mA (with operation current around 70 mA) using novel active MMI-BLD, with relatively high ON/OFF ratio of 18 dB in 315 times 600 mum2 total device size.
  • Keywords
    integrated optoelectronics; laser stability; light interferometers; optical bistability; optical storage; optical windows; random-access storage; semiconductor lasers; active MMI-BLD; active multimode-interferometer based bi-stable laser diode; current 32 mA; integrated optical RAM; optical ON/OFF ratio; uniform hysteresis windows; Hysteresis; Integrated optics; Optical bistability; Optical buffering; Optical devices; Optical saturation; Optical waveguides; Random access memory; Read-write memory; Ultraviolet sources; (130.0250) Opto-electronics; (130.4815) Optical switching devices;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2606-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-865-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5032812