High-speed all-optical AND gate using nonlinear transmission of electroabsorption modulator

Author

Awad, Ehab S. ; Cho, P. ; Goldhar, Julius

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

Volume

13

Issue

5

fYear

2001

fDate

5/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

472

Lastpage

474

Abstract

We investigated an all-optical logic AND operation at 10 Gb/s using nonlinear transmission of electroabsorption modulator pumped with two counterpropagating data streams. The transmitted pump itself was used as the output of the optical gate to obtain high extinction ratio, and high-output peak powers. The gate has been tested using 2/sup 31/-1 long pseudorandom bit sequence. The logical output of the gate has an extinction ratio of more than 10 dB with good eye opening. Our measurements of the gate transmission window show that all-optical logic operation up to 100 Gb/s is feasible.

Keywords

electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; high-speed optical techniques; optical logic; optical pumping; 100 Gbit/s; 2/sup 31/-1 long pseudorandom bit sequence; all-optical logic AND operation; all-optical logic operation; counterpropagating data streams; electroabsorption modulator; extinction ratio; gate transmission window; good eye opening; high extinction ratio; high-output peak powers; high-speed all-optical AND gate; logical output; nonlinear transmission; optical gate; transmitted pump; Band pass filters; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical attenuators; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping; Probes; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse measurements; Pulse modulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.920755

Filename

920755