Design improvement of a buffered SOA-based ultrafast all-optical half adder with PolSK modulated signals

Author

Ahmadi, Hamed ; Kaatuzian, Hassan

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., Amirkabir Univ. of Technol., Tehran, Iran

fYear

2011

fDate

19-21 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

95

Lastpage

98

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze and improve a modern structure optical design for an ultrafast all-optical half adder. This design is based on four wave mixing (FWM) in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA), with polarization-shift-keying (PolSK) modulation input signals. For analyzing the amplifier we use a finite-difference method based on solution of the traveling wave equations. In this study, we have shown that the output signal power of the device increases with the length of the SOA section and current injection.

Keywords

adders; finite difference methods; light polarisation; multiwave mixing; optical design techniques; optical logic; optical modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; POLSK modulated signals; buffered SOA-based ultrafast all-optical half adder; current injection; finite-difference method; four wave mixing; optical design; output signal power; polarization-shift-keying modulation; semiconductor optical amplifier; traveling wave equations; ISO standards; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber networks; Optical polarization; Stimulated emission; All-optical logic gate; finite difference method (FDM); four-wave mixing (FWM); polarization shift keying (PolSK); semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies (HONET), 2011

Conference_Location

Riyadh

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1170-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HONET.2011.6149796

Filename

6149796