All optical synchronous Binary Counter Based On Optical flip-flop Memory

摘要

This paper introduces an all-optical synchronous binary counter composed of all optical Flip-Flop memory and the hard limiters. The paper describes a novel all-optical binary counter that demonstrates the ability of all-optical digital processing to perform even more complex operations. Within optical packet networks, a binary counter can be used at the packet level to verify network performance within a node. The optical counter can be used to perform a fast central processor unit using optical hardware components.