All-optical flip-flop circuit composed of coupled two-port resonant tunneling filter in two-dimensional photonic crystal slab

doi:10.1364/OE.14.001230

All-optical flip-flop circuit composed of coupled two-port resonant tunneling filter in two-dimensional photonic crystal slab

Akihiko Shinya, Satoshi Mitsugi, Takasumi Tanabe, Masaya Notomi, Itaru Yokohama, Hidehiko Takara, and Satoki Kawanishi »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 14, Issue 3, pp. 1230-1235 (2006)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.14.001230

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Abstract

We propose an optical flip-flop circuit composed of two-port resonant-tunneling filters based on a two-dimensional photonic crystal slab with a triangular air-hole lattice. This circuit can function as an optical digital circuit that synchronizes input data with a clock. In this report, we demonstrate that this circuit can achieve a fast operating speed with a response time of about 10 ps and a low operating power of 60 mW by employing a two-dimensional FDTD calculation.

OCIS Codes
(230.3990) Optical devices : Micro-optical devices
(230.5750) Optical devices : Resonators
(230.7370) Optical devices : Waveguides
(250.5300) Optoelectronics : Photonic integrated circuits

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Optical Devices

History
Original Manuscript: November 30, 2005
Revised Manuscript: January 26, 2006
Manuscript Accepted: January 30, 2006
Published: February 6, 2006

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Akihiko Shinya, Satoshi Mitsugi, Takasumi Tanabe, Masaya Notomi, Itaru Yokohama, Hidehiko Takara, and Satoki Kawanishi, "All-optical flip-flop circuit composed of coupled two-port resonant tunneling filter in two-dimensional photonic crystal slab," Opt. Express 14, 1230-1235 (2006)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-14-3-1230

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E. Kuramochi, M. Notomi, S. Hughes, A. Shinya, T. Watanabe, and L. Ramunno, "Disorder-induced scattering loss of line-defect waveguides in photonic crystal slabs," Phys. Rev. B 72, 161318 (2005). [CrossRef]
E. Kuramochi, M. Notomi, S. Mitsugi, A. Shinya, and T. Tanabe, "Ultrahigh-Q photonic crystal nanocavities realized by the local width modulation of a line defect," Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 041112 (2006) [CrossRef]
S. Mitsugi, A. Shinya, E. Kuramochi, M. Notomi, T. Tsuchizawa, and T. Watanabe, "Resonant tunneling wavelength filters with high Q and high transmittance based on photonic crystal slabs," in Proceedings of 16th Annual meeting of IEEE LEOS, 214, Tucson, USA (2003)
M. Notomi, A. Shinya, S. Mitsugi, G. Kira, E. Kuramochi, and T. Tanabe, "Optical bistable switching action of Si high-Q photonic-crystal nanocavities," Opt. Express 12, 1551 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
A. Shinya, S. Mitsugi, E. Kuramochi, T. Tanabe, G. Kim, G. Kira, S. Kondo, K. Yamada, T. Watanabe, T. Tsuchizawa and M. Notomi, "Ultrasmall resonant tunneling/dropping devices in 2D photonic crystal slabs," Proc. SPIE 5729,72 (2005) [CrossRef]
T. Tanabe, M. Notomi, A. Shinya, S. Mitsugi, and E. Kuramochi, "All-optical switches on a silicon chip realized using photonic crystal nanocavities," Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 151112 (2005). [CrossRef]
T. Tanabe, M. Notomi, A. Shinya, S. Mitsugi, and E. Kuramochi, "Fast bistable all-optical switch and memory on silicon photonic crystal on-chip," Opt. Lett. 30, 2575-2577 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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M. F. Yanik, S. Fan, and M. Soljacic, "High-contrast all-optical bistable switching in photonic crystal microcavities," Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 2739 (2003) [CrossRef]

Appl. Phys. Lett.

K. Srinivasan, P. E. Barclay, O. Painter, J. Chen, A. Y. Cho, and C. Gmachl, "Experimental demonstration of a high quality factor photonic crystal microcavity," Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 1915 (2003). [CrossRef]
E. Kuramochi, M. Notomi, S. Mitsugi, A. Shinya, and T. Tanabe, "Ultrahigh-Q photonic crystal nanocavities realized by the local width modulation of a line defect," Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 041112 (2006) [CrossRef]
T. Tanabe, M. Notomi, A. Shinya, S. Mitsugi, and E. Kuramochi, "All-optical switches on a silicon chip realized using photonic crystal nanocavities," Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 151112 (2005). [CrossRef]
M. F. Yanik, S. Fan, and M. Soljacic, "High-contrast all-optical bistable switching in photonic crystal microcavities," Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 2739 (2003) [CrossRef]

Electron. Lett.

S. Fischer, M. Dulk, E. Gamper, W. Vogt, E. Gini, H. Melchior, W. Hunziker, D. Nesset, and A. D. Ellis, "Optical 3R regenerator for 40 Gbit/s networks," Electron. Lett. 35, 2047 (1999) [CrossRef]

IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett.

R. Clavero, F. Ramos, "All-optical fli-flop based on a single SOA-MZI," IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett. 17, 1041 (2005) [CrossRef]

Nature

Y. Akahane, T. Asano, B-S. Song, and S. Noda, "High-Q Photonic nanocavity in a two-dimensional photonic crystal," Nature 425, 944 (2003). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Commun.

Y. Ueno, "Theoretically predicted performance and frequency-scaling rule of a Symmetric-Mach-Zehnder optical 3R gating," Opt. Commun. 229, 253 (2004) [CrossRef]

Opt. Express

Opt. Lett.

T. Tanabe, M. Notomi, A. Shinya, S. Mitsugi, and E. Kuramochi, "Fast bistable all-optical switch and memory on silicon photonic crystal on-chip," Opt. Lett. 30, 2575-2577 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Phys. Rev. B

E. Centeno and D. Felbacq, "Optical bistability in finite-size nonlinear bidimensional photonic crystal doped by a microcavity," Phys. Rev. B 62, 7683 (2000) [CrossRef]
E. Kuramochi, M. Notomi, S. Hughes, A. Shinya, T. Watanabe, and L. Ramunno, "Disorder-induced scattering loss of line-defect waveguides in photonic crystal slabs," Phys. Rev. B 72, 161318 (2005). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. E

M. Soljacic, M. Ibanescu, S. G. Johnson, Y. Fink, and J. D. Joannopoulos, "Optimal bistable switching in nonlinear photonic crystals," Phys. Rev. E 66, 055601 (2002) [CrossRef]

Proc. SPIE

A. Shinya, S. Mitsugi, E. Kuramochi, T. Tanabe, G. Kim, G. Kira, S. Kondo, K. Yamada, T. Watanabe, T. Tsuchizawa and M. Notomi, "Ultrasmall resonant tunneling/dropping devices in 2D photonic crystal slabs," Proc. SPIE 5729,72 (2005) [CrossRef]

Other

S. Mitsugi, A. Shinya, E. Kuramochi, M. Notomi, T. Tsuchizawa, and T. Watanabe, "Resonant tunneling wavelength filters with high Q and high transmittance based on photonic crystal slabs," in Proceedings of 16th Annual meeting of IEEE LEOS, 214, Tucson, USA (2003)

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