Title :
10 Gbit/s all-optical Boolean XOR with SOA fibre Sagnac gate
Author :
Houbavlis, T. ; Zoiros, K. ; Hatziefremidis, A. ; Avramopoulos, H. ; Occhi, L. ; Guekos, G. ; Hansmann, S. ; Burkhard, H. ; Dall´Ara, R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece
fDate :
9/16/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
All-optical Boolean XOR logic is demonstrated with a three terminal fibre Sagnac interferometer employing a semiconductor optical amplifier. Full duty cycle operation at 10 GHz is shown and low pattern dependence has been achieved on a pseudo-data pattern at 10 Gbit/s with low switching energy
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; light interferometers; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; optical logic; semiconductor optical amplifiers; time division multiplexing; 10 GHz; 10 Gbit/s; OTDM network; SOA fibre Sagnac gate; all-optical Boolean XOR logic; full duty cycle operation; low pattern dependence; low switching energy; pseudo-data pattern; semiconductor optical amplifier; three terminal fibre Sagnac interferometer;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19991142
