All-optical directional switching in bistable semiconductor-ring lasers

Andrea Trita; Gabor Mezosi; Maria Jose  Latorre-Vidal; Marco Zanola; Michael Strain; Francesca Bragheri; Marc Sorel; Guido Giuliani

doi:10.1109/JQE.2013.2279510

All-optical directional switching in bistable semiconductor-ring lasers

Andrea Trita, Gabor Mezosi, Maria Jose Latorre-Vidal, Marco Zanola, Michael Strain, Francesca Bragheri, Marc Sorel, Guido Giuliani

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Abstract

We investigate the operation of directionally bistable semiconductor-ring lasers as all-optical ﬂip-ﬂops. We demonstrate fast switching between the two lasing directions by injection of optical pulses acting as set and reset control signals with switching times as fast as 20 ps, delay times as short as 60 ps, and switching energy of 150 fJ.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	877-885
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
Volume	49
Issue number	10
Early online date	23 Aug 2013
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.2013.2279510
Publication status	Published - 30 Sept 2013

Keywords

optical bistability
integrated optics
optical signal processing
semiconductor lasers
optical pulses
cavity resonators

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All-optical directional switching in bistable semiconductor-ring lasers

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