Title :
Power dissipation requirements in slow light devices
Author_Institution :
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD 21218, USA
Abstract :
Various slow ligh schemes are analyzed to determine power dissipation per stored bit. It is shown that required dissipated power increases quite nonlinearly reaching unsustainably high values for the storage capacities needed for optical buffers.
Keywords :
Delay lines; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Optical resonators; Optical saturation; Power dissipation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Slow light; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2007. QELS '07
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-834-6
DOI :
10.1109/QELS.2007.4431195
