Title :
Cavity-enhanced four-wave-mixing in an integrated semiconductor ring laser for all-optical logic operations
Author :
Li, Rei ; Memon, Muhammad Irfan ; Lu, Dan ; Mezosi, Gabor ; Wang, Zhuoran ; Sorel, Marc ; Yu, Siyuan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TR, UK
Abstract :
This paper describes all-optical digital logic AND and XOR gates based-on cavity-enhanced four-wave-mixing in an integrated semiconductor ring laser at 2.5Gb/s. Error free operation with extinction ratio higher than 10dB is achieved.
Keywords :
Extinction ratio; Integrated optics; Logic devices; Optical bistability; Optical devices; Optical filters; Optical signal processing; Optical waveguides; Ring lasers; Semiconductor lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), 2009 Asia
Conference_Location :
Shanghai, China
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-877-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-877-3
