학술논문

Optical flip-flop memory and routing operation based on polarization bistability in optical fiber
Document Type
Conference
Source
2014 The European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on. :1-3 Sep, 2014
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical fibers
Hysteresis
Optical polarization
Fiber nonlinear optics
Optical bistability
Language
ISSN
1550-381X
Abstract
A polarization bistability and hysteresis cycle phenomenon is demonstrated in optical fibers thanks to a counter-propagating four-wave mixing interaction. Based on this process, we successfully report the proof-of-principle of an optical flip-flop memory and a 10-Gbit/s routing operation.