• DocumentCode
    2850599
  • Title

    Novel method of all-optical OR operation using semiconductor optical amplifier Mach-Zehnder interferometers

  • Author

    Kang, I. ; Rasras, M. ; Buhl, L. ; Dinu, M. ; Cabot, S. ; Cappuzzo, M. ; Gomez, L.T. ; Chen, Y.F. ; Patel, S.S. ; Dutta, N. ; Piccirilli, A. ; Jaques, J. ; Giles, C.R.

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We propose a novel method of all-optical OR operation using semiconductor optical amplifier Mach-Zehnder interferometers. We demonstrate all-optical OR operation at 42.8 Gb/s using a hybrid photonic integrated device.
  • Keywords
    Mach-Zehnder interferometers; integrated optics; optical logic; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; all-optical OR operation; bit rate 42.8 Gbit/s; hybrid photonic integrated device; semiconductor optical amplifier; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical saturation; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8536-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8534-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621589
  • Filename
    5621589