Low-Complexity TOAD-Based All-Optical Sampling Gate With Ultralow Switching Energy and High Linearity

Author

Li, P. ; Jiang, L. ; Zhang, J.G. ; Zhang, J.Z. ; Wang, Y.C.

Author_Institution

Minist. of Educ. & Shanxi Province, Key Lab. of Adv. Transducers & Intell. Control Syst., Taiyuan, China

Volume

7

Issue

4

fYear

2015

fDate

Aug. 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

We present experimentally a low-complexity ultralow switching energy and high-linearity all-optical sampling gate based on a terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer, constructed by placing a polarization-insensitive multiple-quantum-well semiconductor optical amplifier (PI-MQW-SOA) asymmetrically within a fiber loop mirror. Using a picosecond pulse train as the trigger clock, we analyze, in detail, the influence of the sampling pulse power and the offset of the PI-MQW-SOA from the loop midpoint on the shape, width, and amplitude of the sampling window, respectively. Furthermore, the switching energy and linearity of this sampling gate under different widths of sampling windows are specifically investigated. Results demonstrate that our sampling gate possesses a switching energy as low as 25 fJ and a high linearity above 0.99.

Keywords

demultiplexing equipment; mirrors; optical information processing; optical switches; semiconductor optical amplifiers; semiconductor quantum wells; fiber loop mirror; high linearity all-optical sampling gate; low-complexity TOAD-based all-optical sampling gate; picosecond pulse train; polarization-insensitive multiple-quantum-well semiconductor optical amplifier; sampling windows; terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer; trigger clock; ultralow switching energy; Clocks; Logic gates; Nonlinear optics; Optical polarization; Optical pulses; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; All-optical sampling; optical signal processing; semiconductor optical amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1943-0655

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPHOT.2015.2459377

Filename

7163498