TY - JFULL AU - P. Nadimi and D. D. Caviglia and E. Di Zitti PY - 2012/12/ TI - Exploiting Silicon-on-Insulator Microring Resonator Bistability Behavior for All Optical Set-Reset Flip-Flop T2 - International Journal of Physical and Mathematical Sciences SP - 1484 EP - 1489 VL - 6 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/1869 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 71, 2012 N2 - We propose an all optical flip-flop circuit composedof two Silicon-on-insulator microring resonators coupled to straightwaveguides by exploiting the optical bistability behavior due to thenonlinear Kerr effect. We used the transfer matrix analysis toinvestigate continuous wave propagation through microrings, as wellwe considered the nonlinear switching characteristics of an opticaldevice using a double-coupler silicon ring resonator in presence ofthe Kerr nonlinearity, thus obtaining the bistability behavior of theoutput port, the drop port and also inside the silicon microringresonator. It is shown that the bistability behavior depends on thecontrol of the input wavelength.KeywordsAll optical flip-flops, Kerr effect, microringresonator, optical bistability. ER -