All optical XNOR gate using simultaneous four-wave mixing and cross-gain modulation in an SOA

23 December 2004

conference paper
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Vol. 2, 913-914
https://doi.org/10.1109/leos.2004.1363541

Abstract

We demonstrate an all-optical XNOR-gate using simultaneous FWM and XGM in an SOA. Error-free operation for 5-Gb/s RZ data with < 2dB power-penalty is reported. The module also performs as a half-adder with inverted 'sum' output.

Keywords

NONLINEAR OPTICS
OPTICAL MIXING
OPTICAL MODULATION
FOUR-WAVE MIXING
SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS
PULSE AMPLIFIERS
OPTICAL RESONATORS
OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY
HIGH SPEED OPTICAL TECHNIQUES
LOGIC

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All-optical XOR gate using semiconductor optical amplifiers without additional input beam
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2002
All-Optical Exclusive NOR Logic Gate Using Mach-Zehnder Interferometer
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2002
Switches and frequency converters based on cross-gain modulation in semiconductor optical amplifiers
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 1997

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