New scheme of digital optical switching and memory operation utilizing the mode-hopping phenomenon in semiconductor lasers

Wakao Sasaki; Hirokazu Nakayama; Masahiro Mitsuda; Tatehisa Ohta

doi:10.1117/12.18074

1 July 1990 New scheme of digital optical switching and memory operation utilizing the mode-hopping phenomenon in semiconductor lasers

Wakao Sasaki, Hirokazu Nakayama, Masahiro Mitsuda, Tatehisa Ohta

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Proceedings Volume 1215, Digital Optical Computing II; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.18074
Event: OE/LASE '90, 1990, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

A new scheme of digital optical switching, optical analog-to-digital conversion, and wavelength bistability is presented which can be applied to digital optical, memory operations, utilizing the mode-hopping phenomenon of Fabry-Perot cavity-type injection laser diode. The measured speed of switching was within the nsec region, which was limited by the driving capabilities and the light detection response, not by the phenomenon itself.

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Wakao Sasaki, Hirokazu Nakayama, Masahiro Mitsuda, and Tatehisa Ohta "New scheme of digital optical switching and memory operation utilizing the mode-hopping phenomenon in semiconductor lasers", Proc. SPIE 1215, Digital Optical Computing II, (1 July 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.18074

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