Title :
Cavity-enhanced four-wave-mixing in an integrated semiconductor ring laser for all-optical digital logic operations
Author :
Li, B. ; Memon, M.I. ; Lu, D. ; Mezosi, G. ; Wang, Z. ; Sorel, M. ; Yu, S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Abstract :
All-optical digital logic AND and XOR gates based-on cavity-enhanced four-wave-mixing in an integrated semiconductor ring laser are demonstrated at 2.5Gb/s. Error free operation with ER >10dB is achieved.
Keywords :
integrated optics; laser cavity resonators; multiwave mixing; optical logic; ring lasers; semiconductor lasers; all-optical digital logic AND gates; all-optical digital logic XOR gates; all-optical logic functions; bit rate 2.5 Gbit/s; cavity resonance enhancement; cavity-enhanced four-wave mixing; input optical energy; integrated semiconductor ring laser; multiple wavelength channels; optical injection locking; output extinction ratio; Decision support systems; Logic; Quadratic programming; Ring lasers; Semiconductor lasers; AND; XOR; four-wave-mixing;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics in Switching, 2009. PS '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pisa
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3857-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3856-3
DOI :
10.1109/PS.2009.5307796
