A novel approach for SOA-based all-optical NAND gate

Author

Bhambri, Kadam ; Jayjee, Gagandeep Kaur ; Gupta, Neena ; Dhawan, Divya

Author_Institution

PEC Univ. of Technol., Chandigarh, India

fYear

2011

fDate

26-30 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

As the need for higher bandwidths in telecommunication systems is gearing up, it is being anticipated that in near future, all optical processing will provide a feasible solution to cater to the need of the hour. Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA) are key components in the present day all optical networks. They are being employed as wavelength converters, optical logic gates, bit comparators and many other all-optical digital signal processing applications. In this paper, a new and improved design of an all-optical NAND gate using cross gain modulation of SOA has been suggested and demonstrated successfully at 10 Gb/s.

Keywords

logic gates; optical design techniques; optical logic; optical modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA; all-optical digital signal processing; bit comparators; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; cross gain modulation; optical NAND gate; optical logic gates; optical networks; optical processing; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication systems; wavelength converters; Integrated optics; Logic gates; Modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Cross gain modulation (XGM); Dispersion shifted fiber (DSF); Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA); Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2011 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Stockholm

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0881-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2011.5971027

Filename

5971027