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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2008
Applicants:
Drew Maywar, Rochester, NY (US);
Govind P. Agrawal, Rochester, NY (US);
Inventors:
Drew Maywar, Rochester, NY (US);
Govind P. Agrawal, Rochester, NY (US);
Assignee:
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention pertain to remote optical control of holding beam-type, optical flip-flop devices, as well as to the devices themselves. All-optical SET and RE-SET control signals operate on a cw holding beam in a remote manner to vary the power of the holding beam between threshold switching values to enable flip-flop operation. Cross-gain modulation and cross-polarization modulation processes can be used to change the power of the holding beam.