A novel technique for the dynamic storage of multibit binary words, including picosecond optical pulses, is developed. A special feature ofproposed method is the use ofadditive active mode-locking in the powerfi.il single-mode semiconductor laser with an extremely long external single-mode fiber cavity where the propagation of optical bit pulses as guidingcenter solitons is maintained. This technique provides the non-stop circulation of picosecond soliton digital trains with the opportunity ofboth electronical and all-optical access to the memory at the high bit rate. Key words: optical memory, additive active mode-locking, guiding-center soliton

Date Published: 27 December 1996
PDF: 4 pages
Proc. SPIE 2969, Second International Conference on Optical Information Processing, (27 December 1996); doi: 10.1117/12.262587

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2969:
Second International Conference on Optical Information Processing
Zhores I. Alferov; Yuri V. Gulyaev; Dennis R. Pape, Editor(s)