Electronics Letters · 1991 · 11 citations · 0 references
Optical MaterialsEngineeringOptical Transmission SystemFiber OpticsFiber-optic CommunicationOptical ComputingBer MeasurementsOptical NetworksOptical PropertiesMemory DeviceOptical SwitchingOptical NetworkingPhotonicsActive SwitchingComputer EngineeringBit Atm-cellsMemory ArchitectureMemory ReliabilityOptical MemoryOptical Fiber CommunicationRandom AccessOptoelectronics
An investigation of a fibre loop optical memory with active switching and amplifying elements and capable of random access is presented. Transmission of l.7 Gbit/s, 512 bit ATM-cells is achieved at BER = 10−9 for up to seven fibre loop round trips.