• DocumentCode
    814651
  • Title

    All-optical XOR gate using polarization rotation in single highly nonlinear fiber

  • Author

    Yu, Changyuan ; Christen, Louis ; Luo, Ting ; Wang, Yan ; Pan, Zhongqi ; Yan, Lian-Shan ; Willner, Alan E.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng.-Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Volume
    17
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    6/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1232
  • Lastpage
    1234
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a 10-Gb/s all-optical XOR gate based on polarization rotation induced by Kerr effect in a single highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF). Using 2 km of HNLF with a nonlinear coefficient of 9.1 W-1·km-1, we obtain a 25-dB extinction ratio at the XOR output.
  • Keywords
    optical Kerr effect; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical logic; optical rotation; 10 Gbit/s; 2 km; Kerr effect; all-optical XOR gate; extinction ratio; highly nonlinear fiber; nonlinear coefficient; polarization rotation; Extinction ratio; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Kerr effect; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical mixing; Optical polarization; Optical signal processing; Four-wave mixing; nonlinear optics; optical fiber communication;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LPT.2005.846918
  • Filename
    1432786