Experimental evaluation of all-optical asynchronous and synchronous memories

Author

Reis, C. ; Andre, P. ; Dionisio, R. ; Neto, B. ; Teixeira, A. ; Maziotis, A. ; Kouloumentas, Ch ; Stamatiadis, C. ; Bougioukos, M. ; Vramopoulos, H.A. ; Calabretta, N. ; Dorren, Harm J S

Author_Institution

Inst. de Telecomun., Univ. de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

fYear

2010

fDate

27-28 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

28

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate the accuracy of an all-optical S-R latch and an optical S-R flip-flop based on hybrid integrated Mach-Zehnder Interferometers, with Semiconductor Optical Amplifier in each arm (MZI-SOA). The performance of both bistable devices will be studied and compared in terms of extinction ratio and switching times.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; asynchronous circuits; flip-flops; optical storage; semiconductor optical amplifiers; MZI-SOA; all-optical S-R latch; all-optical asynchronous memories; all-optical synchronous memories; extinction ratio; hybrid integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometers; optical S-R flip-flop; semiconductor optical amplifier; switching times; Erbium; Latches; Optical bistability; Optical coupling; Mach-Zenhder interferometer (MZI); Optical switching; memory unit; optical flip-flop; optical signal processing; semiconductor optical amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Engineering Conference (ICENCO), 2010 International

Conference_Location

Giza

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-184-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICENCO.2010.5720420

Filename

5720420