Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ICTONMW.2009.5385613
