Conference paper
High-Speed and Low-Energy Flip-Flop Operation of Asymmetric Active-Multimode Interferometer Bi-Stable Laser Diodes
In
Proceedings of the European Conference on Optical Communication (ecoc) 2011
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2011, pp. 1-3
Abstract
High-speed (121/25 ps rise/fall time) and low-switching energy (7.1 and 3.4 fJ) alloptical flip-flop operation of single-wavelength high-mesa asymmetric active-MMI bi-stable laser diodes is demonstrated for the first time using 25 ps long switching pulses.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | Optical Society of America |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Pages: | 1-3 |
| Proceedings: | 37th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication |
| ISBN: | 1457719185 , 1557529329 , 9781457719189 and 9781557529329 |
| Types: | Conference paper |
Keywords
Flip-flops Hysteresis Optical bistability Optical interferometry Optical pulses Optical switches Optical waveguides asymmetric active-multimode interferometer bistable laser diodes energy 3.4 fJ energy 7.1 fJ flip-flops low-energy flip-flop operation semiconductor lasers single-wavelength high-mesa asymmetric active laser time 121 ps time 25 ps
