Title : 
A novel approach for SOA-based all-optical NAND gate
         
        
            Author : 
Bhambri, Kadam ; Jayjee, Gagandeep Kaur ; Gupta, Neena ; Dhawan, Divya
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
PEC Univ. of Technol., Chandigarh, India
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
As the need for higher bandwidths in telecommunication systems is gearing up, it is being anticipated that in near future, all optical processing will provide a feasible solution to cater to the need of the hour. Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA) are key components in the present day all optical networks. They are being employed as wavelength converters, optical logic gates, bit comparators and many other all-optical digital signal processing applications. In this paper, a new and improved design of an all-optical NAND gate using cross gain modulation of SOA has been suggested and demonstrated successfully at 10 Gb/s.
         
        
            Keywords : 
logic gates; optical design techniques; optical logic; optical modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA; all-optical digital signal processing; bit comparators; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; cross gain modulation; optical NAND gate; optical logic gates; optical networks; optical processing; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication systems; wavelength converters; Integrated optics; Logic gates; Modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Cross gain modulation (XGM); Dispersion shifted fiber (DSF); Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA); Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA);
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2011 13th International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Stockholm
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4577-0881-7
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
2161-2056
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICTON.2011.5971027