Title :
All-optical logic gates (XOR, AND, and OR) based on cross phase modulation in a highly nonlinear fiber
Author :
Sun, K. ; Qiu, J. ; Rochette, M. ; Chen, L.R.
Author_Institution :
Photonic Syst. Group, McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
We report an all-optical multi-logic gate based on cross-phase modulation in a highly nonlinear fiber and demonstrate XOR, AND, and OR operations at 10 Gb/s.
Keywords :
optical fibres; optical information processing; optical logic; optical modulation; phase modulation; AND gate; HNLF-based all-optical logic gates; OR gate; XOR gate; all-optical multilogic gates; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; cross phase modulation; highly nonlinear fiber; optical signal processing; Band pass filters; Couplers; Frequency synchronization; Logic gates; Optical fiber communication; Optical modulation; Phase modulation; Probes; Reconfigurable logic; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2009. ECOC '09. 35th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5096-1
