Fast all optical flip-flop using coupled Mach-Zehnder interferometers

Author

Hill, M.T. ; de Waardt, H. ; Dorren, H.J.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

188

Abstract

Summary form given only. Recently all optical high speed gates employing interferometers containing semiconductor optical amplifiers, have been used in optical TDM networks. We outline a fast all optical flip-flop which will be useful to threshold and store the output of these gates. The flip-flop also has similar high performance and integration potential. The work reported here is an. extension of concepts developed for optical flip-flops constructed from coupled lasers.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; flip-flops; high-speed optical techniques; integrated optics; optical communication equipment; optical logic; optical switches; semiconductor optical amplifiers; time division multiplexing; all optical high speed gates; coupled Mach-Zehnder interferometers; coupled lasers; fast all optical flip-flop; high performance; optical TDM networks; semiconductor optical amplifiers; switching speed; All-optical networks; Flip-flops; High speed optical techniques; Interferometers; Optical coupling; Optical fiber networks; Optical interferometry; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Time division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.947689

Filename

947689