All-optical flip-flop and control methods thereof

Maywar, Drew; Agrawal, Govind P

Title: All-optical flip-flop and control methods thereof

Patent · Tue Mar 23 00:00:00 EDT 2010

OSTI ID:1014459

Maywar, Drew ^[1]; Agrawal, Govind P ^[1]

Rochester, NY

Embodiments of the invention pertain to remote optical control of holding beam-type, optical flip-flop devices, as well as to the devices themselves. All-optical SET and RE-SET control signals operate on a cw holding beam in a remote manner to vary the power of the holding beam between threshold switching values to enable flip-flop operation. Cross-gain modulation and cross-polarization modulation processes can be used to change the power of the holding beam.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: FC52-92SF19460

Assignee:: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

Patent Number(s):: 7,684,708

Application Number:: U S Patent Application 7,684,708

OSTI ID:: 1014459

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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