All-optical flip-flop composed of a single nonlinear passive microring coupled to two straight waveguides
| Autor: | S. Mohammad Ali Mirzaee, S.S. Zakeri, Farnaz Farman, Alireza Bahrampour |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Physics
Digital electronics Kerr effect business.industry Physics::Optics Hardware_PERFORMANCEANDRELIABILITY Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials law.invention Optical bistability Switching time Nonlinear system Hysteresis Optics law Hardware_INTEGRATEDCIRCUITS Electrical and Electronic Engineering Physical and Theoretical Chemistry business Waveguide Flip-flop Hardware_LOGICDESIGN |
| Zdroj: | Optics Communications. 282:427-433 |
| ISSN: | 0030-4018 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.optcom.2008.10.011 |
| Popis: | Microrings can have different hysteresis characteristics at their different resonance frequencies. They can be used as a multi-hysteresis optical component. In this paper an optical D-flip-flop circuit composed of a single nonlinear passive microring coupled to two straight waveguide based on the Kerr effect is proposed. The proposed circuit can operate as an optical digital circuit which synchronizes input DATA with the CLOCK of the circuit. A simple analytical model for hysteresis design and the transient analysis of the proposed D-flip-flop are presented. According to our model, the switching time of the flip-flop is in the order of 10 ps. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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