• DocumentCode
    830943
  • Title

    All-optical XOR gate using semiconductor optical amplifiers without additional input beam

  • Author

    Kim, Jae Hun ; Jhon, Young Min ; Byun, Young Tae ; Lee, Seok ; Woo, Deok Ha ; Kim, Sun Ho

  • Author_Institution
    Photonics Res. Center, Korea Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Seoul, South Korea
  • Volume
    14
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    2002
  • Firstpage
    1436
  • Lastpage
    1438
  • Abstract
    The novel design of an all-optical XOR gate by using cross-gain modulation of semiconductor optical amplifiers has been suggested and demonstrated successfully at 10 Gb/s. Boolean AB~ and A~B of the two input signals A and B have been obtained and combined to achieve the all-optical XOR gate. No additional input beam such as a clock signal or continuous wave light is used in this new design, which is required in other all-optical XOR gates.
  • Keywords
    optical design techniques; optical logic; optical modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 10 Gbit/s; Boolean logic; all-optical-XOR gate; cross-gain modulation; design; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Circuits; Clocks; Laser excitation; Logic devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Probes; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LPT.2002.801841
  • Filename
    1037542