Title :
All-optical XOR gates for QPSK signal based optical networks
Author :
Kong, D. ; Li, Yuhua ; Wang, Huifang ; Zhou, Shiyu ; Zang, Jizhao ; Zhang, Juyong ; Wu, Junyong ; Lin, James
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Inf. Photonics & Opt. Commun., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China
Abstract :
All-optical XOR gates for QPSK signal based optical network applications such as checksum, error recognisation etc., aided by a partially-modulated QPSK signal, are demonstrated through a 10-Gbaud proof-of-concept experiment with power penalty of 4 dB.
Keywords :
error statistics; logic gates; optical fibre networks; quadrature phase shift keying; QPSK signal based optical networks; all-optical XOR gates; checksum; error recognisation; partially-modulated QPSK signal; power penalty; proof-of-concept experiment;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el.2013.0010
