Realization of all-optical flip-flop using directionally coupled bistable laser diode Export

@article{citeulike:3807865, abstract = {A novel all-optical flip-flop device has been realized using a directionally-coupled bistable laser diode (DC-BLD). We have fabricated the DC-BLD by a conventional fabrication technique of LDs. To separate the adjacent electrodes of the directional coupler, an oblique electron-beam evaporation technique was developed. By this self-align process, the two adjacent waveguides of the directional coupler were electrically isolated without employing any additional lithography step. Using the fabricated DC-BLD, all-optical flip-flop has been demonstrated due to the nonlinear effects of the saturable absorber and the directional coupler. The flip-flop operation has been achieved with sufficiently small input optical power level around 0 dBm.}, author = {Takenaka, M. and Nakano, Y.}, booktitle = {Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE}, citeulike-article-id = {3807865}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2003.818900}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1255946}, doi = {10.1109/LPT.2003.818900}, journal = {Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE}, keywords = {device, optical}, number = {1}, pages = {45--47}, posted-at = {2008-12-18 20:29:05}, priority = {2}, title = {Realization of all-optical flip-flop using directionally coupled bistable laser diode}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2003.818900}, volume = {16}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3807865 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3807865 N2 - A novel all-optical flip-flop device has been realized using a directionally-coupled bistable laser diode (DC-BLD). We have fabricated the DC-BLD by a conventional fabrication technique of LDs. To separate the adjacent electrodes of the directional coupler, an oblique electron-beam evaporation technique was developed. By this self-align process, the two adjacent waveguides of the directional coupler were electrically isolated without employing any additional lithography step. Using the fabricated DC-BLD, all-optical flip-flop has been demonstrated due to the nonlinear effects of the saturable absorber and the directional coupler. The flip-flop operation has been achieved with sufficiently small input optical power level around 0 dBm. IS - 1 JF - Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE EP - 47 TI - Realization of all-optical flip-flop using directionally coupled bistable laser diode VL - 16 T2 - Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE SP - 45 KW - device KW - optical AU - Takenaka, M AU - Nakano, Y PY - 2004/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2003.818900 ER -