European Conference on Optical Communication

Optical flip-flop memory and routing operation based on polarization bistability in optical fiber

P.-Y. Bony, Massimiliano Guasoni, Elie Assémat, Stéphane Pitois, Dominique Sugny, Antonio Picozzi, Hans Rudolf Jauslin, Julien Fatome

Published Sep 1, 2014• 1 citation

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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.

DOI: 10.1109/ecoc.2014.6963831

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