High-speed optical logic

Author

Hall, K.L. ; Rauschenbach, K.A. ; Pate, N.S.

Author_Institution

Lincoln Lab., MIT, Lexington, MA, USA

fYear

1997

Firstpage

249

Abstract

All-optical switches and logic gates have been studied for many years, primarily because of their potential for high-speed operation. High-speed operation has been demonstrated in optical AND (demultiplexing) gates. For example, researchers have demonstrated all-optical demultiplexing of 100 Gbit/s data streams using a variety of optical switching elements. Still, all-optical bit-wise logic has not been demonstrated above 40 Gbit/s. However, rapid advances in the demonstrated switching speeds of optical logic gates are expected in the near future

Keywords

demultiplexing equipment; high-speed optical techniques; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical logic; optical switches; photonic switching systems; 100 Gbit/s; 40 Gbit/s; all-optical bit-wise logic; all-optical demultiplexing; all-optical logic gates; all-optical switches; high-speed optical logic; interferometric switches; nonlinear optical loop mirror; optical AND gates; switching speeds; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Logic; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical refraction; Optical saturation; Optical solitons; Optical waveguides;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication. OFC 97., Conference on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

1-55752-480-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1997.719861

Filename

719861