Title :
All-optical OR gate using cross gain modulation in semiconductor optical amplifier
Author :
Byun, Young Tae ; Choi, Kyoung Sun ; Jhon, Young Min ; Woo, Deok Ha ; Lee, Seok ; Kim, Sun Ho ; Park, Jin Woo
Author_Institution :
Photonics Res. Center, Korea Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Seoul, South Korea
Abstract :
The reported speed of logic OR with the cascaded SOAs was limited by 2.5 Gbit/s because of relatively slow recovery time. In this paper, an all-optical OR logic gate has been for the first time proposed at 10 Gbit/s by using the XGM of single SOA.
Keywords :
optical logic; optical modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 10 Gbit/s; all-optical OR gate; cascaded SOA; cross gain modulation; logic OR speed; recovery time; semiconductor optical amplifier; Boolean functions; Information processing; Logic gates; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Photonics; Probes; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal processing; Sun;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005. CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8974-3
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568271
