An Optical Content Addressable Memory Cell for Address Look-Up at 10 Gb/s

作者：Pitris Stelios^*; Vagionas Christos; Maniotis Pavlos; Kanellos George T; Pleros Nikos

来源：IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2016, 28(16): 1790-1793.

DOI：10.1109/LPT.2016.2572299

• Optical memories
• content addressable memories
• photonic integrated circuits
• semiconductor optical amplifiers
• optical look-up
• InP monolithic integration

We propose and experimentally demonstrate the first all-optical content addressable memory (CAM) cell that comprises an all-optical monolithically integrated InP flip-flop and an optical XOR gate. The experimental results reveal error-free operation at 10 Gb/s for both content addressing and content writing operations. The potential of these memory architectures to allow for up to 40-Gb/s operation could presumably lead to fast CAM-based routing applications by enabling all-optical address look-up schemes.

• 出版日期2016-8-15