All-optical XOR in a semiconductor optical amplifier-assisted fiber Sagnac gate

Author

Houbavlis, T. ; Zoiros, K. ; Vlachos, K. ; Papakyriakopoulos, T. ; Avramopoulos, H. ; Girardin, F. ; Guekos, G. ; Dall´Ara, R. ; Hansmann, S. ; Burkhard, H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece

Volume

11

Issue

3

fYear

1999

fDate

3/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

334

Lastpage

336

Abstract

All-optical Boolean XOR is demonstrated on a high-speed serial bit stream with a three-optical input fiber Sagnac interferometer switch, which uses a semiconductor optical amplifier. Full duty cycle bit switching has been demonstrated up to 5 GHz with contrast ratio as high as 14.6 dB.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; light interferometers; logic gates; optical communication equipment; optical fibres; optical logic; optical switches; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 5 GHz; all-optical Boolean XOR; all-optical XOR; contrast ratio; duty cycle bit switching; fiber Sagnac gate; high-speed serial bit stream; semiconductor optical amplifier; semiconductor optical amplifier-assisted fiber Sagnac gate; three-optical input fiber Sagnac interferometer switch; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fibers; Optical interferometry; Sagnac interferometers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.748226

Filename

748226