Title :
All-optical 40 Gb/s logic XOR gate with dual ultrafast nonlinear interferometers
Author :
Webb, R.P. ; Manning, R.J. ; Giller, R.
Author_Institution :
Tyndall Nat. Inst., Univ. Coll. Cork, Ireland
Abstract :
We propose and demonstrate at 40 Gb/s a novel XOR logic gate using dual cascaded ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (UNI) elements based on semiconductor optical amplifiers. The potential speed is higher than for previously demonstrated XOR gates.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; light interferometers; logic gates; nonlinear optics; optical communication equipment; optical logic; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 40 Gbit/s; all-optical logic XOR gate; dual ultrafast nonlinear interferometers; semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
