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Power dissipation requirements in slow light devices

Jacob B. Khurgin

Published May 1, 2007• 0 citations

Abstract

Various slow ligh schemes are analyzed to determine power dissipation per stored bit. It is shown that required dissipated power increases quite nonlinearly reaching unsustainably high values for the storage capacities needed for optical buffers.

DOI: 10.1109/qels.2007.4431195

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