All-optical XOR based on integrated MZI-SOA with co- and counter-propagation scheme

Author

Reis, C. ; Dionisio, R.P. ; Neto, B. ; Teixeira, A. ; Andre, P.

Author_Institution

Inst. de Telecomun., Aveiro, Portugal

fYear

2009

fDate

10-12 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this work we present a review of all-optical XOR gates based on Mach-Zehnder interferometer with semiconductor optical amplifiers (MZI-SOA), using NRZ modulated signals driven at 10 Gbit/s. The performance of two alternative schemes for logical XOR gates implementation is demonstrated through numerical simulations and experimentally. The extinction ratio shows high operation performance with low degradation.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; optical logic; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Mach-Zenhder interferometer; all-optical XOR; copropagation; counter propagation; extinction ratio; integrated MZI-SOA; review; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical interferometry; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical signal processing; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; SOA based devices; all-optical logical gates; all-optical signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ICTON Mediterranean Winter Conference,2009. ICTON-MW 2009. 3rd

Conference_Location

Angers

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5745-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5746-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTONMW.2009.5385613

Filename

5385613