Nonvolatile Switching in a Ring Resonator with Saturable Absorption
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Lufungula, Isaac Luntadila; Kuyken, Bart
- Source
- 2023 International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing (PSC) Photonics in Switching and Computing (PSC), 2023 International Conference on. :1-3 Sep, 2023
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Photonics and Electrooptics
Quantum computing
Nonvolatile memory
Quantum dots
Noise reduction
Switches
Signal processing
Routing
all-optical switching
ring resonator
all-optical memory
saturable absorber
latching
- Language
- ISSN
- 2166-8892
We investigate the theoretical properties of a novel all-optical switch design consisting of a saturable absorber in an add-drop ring resonator. Using a modified transfer matrix method we demonstrate nonvolatile switching, where the routing persists even after the control signal is deactivated.