All-optical flip-flop composed of a single nonlinear passive microring coupled to two straight waveguides |
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Authors: | A.R. Bahrampour S. Mohammad Ali Mirzaee F. Farman S.S. Zakeri |
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Affiliation: | Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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Keywords: | D-flip-flop Kerr effect Microring Optical bistability |
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