A new alternative approach of all optical frequency encoded clocked S-R flip-flop exploiting the non-linear character of semiconductor optical amplifiers

In all optical networking and computing system, the role of all-optical flip-flops is very much essential. For signal synchronization with a reference clock and for storage of digital bits the flip-flop has no alternative. In this communication the authors propose a method of developing an all optical frequency encoded clocked R-S flip-flop using the non-linear character of semiconductor optical amplifiers. Frequency is the basic character of light and several encoding/decoding problems in computations and communications can be solved using the frequency encoding principle of optical data. The proposed system is all-optical and therefore it can extend a super fast speed of operation (far above THz limit). (C) 2011 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.