Simulation of ultrafast all-optical XOR gate with SOA-based UNI and cascaded ODI

Author

Zoiros, K.E. ; Demertzis, C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Democritus Univ. of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece

fYear

2011

Firstpage

105

Lastpage

106

Abstract

The feasibility of employing an optical delay interferometer (ODI) to double the data rate of the conventional semiconductor optical amplifier-based ultrafast nonlinear interferometer configured as XOR gate is theoretically investigated and demonstrated. The numerical simulation conducted for this purpose allows to find the optimum temporal offset that must be inserted by the cascaded ODI in order to realize the specific Boolean function both with error-free and pattern-free performance.

Keywords

Boolean functions; light interferometers; logic gates; numerical analysis; optical logic; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Boolean function; SOA-based ultrafast nonlinear interferometer; cascaded optical delay interferometer; data rate; error-free performance; numerical simulation; pattern-free performance; semiconductor optical amplifier; ultrafast all-optical XOR gate; Logic gates; Nonlinear optics; Optical interferometry; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), 2011 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

ISSN

2158-3234

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-876-1

Electronic_ISBN

2158-3234

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NUSOD.2011.6041162

Filename

6041162