Title :
All-optical bit pattern generation and matching
Author :
Hall, K.L. ; Rauschenbach, K.A.
Author_Institution :
Lincoln Lab., MIT, Lexington, MA, USA
fDate :
6/20/1996 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
All-optical bit pattern generation and matching is demonstrated at 10 Gbit/s. Bit patterns are generated from noise in a fibre loop memory and are matched in an all-optical exclusive OR (XOR) gate. The XOR gate is implemented in a nonlinear optical loop mirror. This is the first demonstration of an all-optical code matching circuit using an optical loop memory as a high rate pattern generator. Such high rate code generation and matching could be used for address recognition in ultra-high speed time division multiplexed systems
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; optical information processing; optical logic; pattern matching; 10 Gbit/s; XOR gate; address recognition; all-optical code matching circuit; bit pattern generation; bit pattern matching; fibre loop memory; noise; nonlinear optical loop mirror; ultra-high speed time division multiplexing;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19960792
