Realization of all-optical half adder using XGM in semiconductor optical amplifiers without additional input beam

Author

Kim, S.H. ; Kim, Ji H. ; Son, C.W. ; Kim, Gracia ; Byun, Y.T. ; Jhon, Y.M. ; Lee, Sang-Rim ; Woo, Dong Hyuk

Author_Institution

Korea Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Seoul

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

By using gain nonlinearity characteristics of semiconductor optical amplifier, an all-optical binary half adder at 10 Gbps is demonstrated. No additional input beam such as clock signal or continuous wave light, which is required in many other all-optical logic gates, is used in this design concept. The half adder operates in single mechanism, which is XGM.

Keywords

adders; optical logic; optical modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; semiconductor quantum wells; XGM; all-optical half adder; clock signal; continuous wave light; cross gain modulation; gain nonlinearity; logic gates; multi-quantum well; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Adders; Laser excitation; Optical attenuators; Optical feedback; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical saturation; Photonics; Probes; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; all-optical logic gate; cross gain modulation; multi-quantum well semiconductor optical amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics in Switching, 2006. PS '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Heraklion, Crete

Print_ISBN

978-0-7803-9790-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7803-9790-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PS.2006.4350186

Filename

4350186