All-Optical Flip-Flop Based on Coupled SOA-PSW

作者：Wang, Lina; Wang, Yongjun^*; Wu, Chen; Wang, Fu

来源：Photonic Sensors, 2016, 6(4): 366-371.

DOI：10.1007/s13320-016-0353-5

• Polarization switch
• all-optical flip-flop
• nonlinear polarization effect
• semiconductor optical amplifier

The semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) has obvious advantages in all-optical signal processing, because of the simple structure, strong non-linearity, and easy integration. A variety of all-optical signal processing functions, such as all-optical wavelength conversion, all-optical logic gates and all-optical sampling, can be completed by SOA. So the SOA has been widespread concerned in the field of all-optical signal processing. Recently, the polarization rotation effect of SOA is receiving considerable interest, and many researchers have launched numerous research work utilizing this effect. In this paper, a new all-optical flip-flop structure using polarization switch (PSW) based on polarization rotation effect of SOA is presented.

• 出版日期2016-12
• 单位北京邮电大学