All-optical latching circuit controlled by a 2-bit all-optical correlator

Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Martinez, J. M.; Clavero, R.; Herrera, J.; Ramos, F.; Marti, J. (Nanophotonics Technology Center, Universidad Politcnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain)
Liu, Y.; Koonen, A. M. J.; Dorren, H. J. S. (COBRA Research Institute, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
Liu, Y. (University of Electronic Science & Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, P. R. China)

Abstract:
The routing functionality by all-optically interconnecting semiconductor-based optical logic gates and flipflops is demonstrated in the frame of an all-optical label swapping network. High extinction ratios are obtained at the output of the flip-flop.