40Gb/s All-optical NOR Gate Based on Semiconductor Optical Amplifier and Fiber Delay Interferometer

Author

Xu, Jing ; Zhang, Xinliang ; Liu, Deming ; Huang, Dexiu

Author_Institution

Wuhan Nat. Lab. for Optoelectron., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan

fYear

2006

fDate

Nov. 2006

Firstpage

41

Lastpage

43

Abstract

An ultrafast all-optical logic NOR gate based on a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) and a fiber delay interferometer (FDI) is presented. For high-speed input return-to-zero (RZ) signal, nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) switching windows which satisfy Boolean NOR operation can be formed by properly choosing the delay time and the phase shift of FDI. 40Gb/s NOR operation has been demonstrated successfully with low control optical power. Simulations show that even higher speed can be expected.

Keywords

light interferometers; logic gates; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical logic; optical modulation; optical switches; optical windows; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 40 Gbit/s; Boolean NOR operation; SOA; delay time; fiber delay interferometer; nonreturn-to-zero switching windows; phase shift; return-to-zero signal; semiconductor optical amplifier; ultrafast all-optical logic NOR gate; Delay; Fault detection; Logic gates; Optical control; Optical fibers; Optical interferometry; Optical signal processing; Phase shifting interferometry; Power semiconductor switches; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optoelectronics, 2006 Optics Valley of China International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Wuhan, China

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0816-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OVCISO.2006.302706

Filename

4085568