All-Optical Decision Gate With Extinction Ratio Improved Scheme Using an SOA-DBR Laser

Author

Li-Qiang Yu ; Dan Lu ; Ling-Juan Zhao

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Semicond. Mater. Sci., Inst. of Semicond., Beijing, China

Volume

26

Issue

21

fYear

2014

fDate

Nov.1, 1 2014

Firstpage

2126

Lastpage

2129

Abstract

A tunable all-optical decision scheme using a semiconductor optical amplifier integrated with a distributed Bragg reflector laser is proposed and simulated. Simulations show that the dynamic optical decisions with extinction ratio (ER) improvement from 28 to 6 dB can be obtained for signal rates between 1.25 and 10 Gb/s, respectively. In addition, with two input signals, logic NAND and NOR gates are realized with ER improvements of 24 and 20 dB, respectively.

Keywords

distributed Bragg reflector lasers; extinction coefficients; integrated optics; laser tuning; optical logic; semiconductor optical amplifiers; ER; SOA-DBR laser; all-optical decision gate; bit rate 1.25 Gbit/s to 10 Gbit/s; distributed Bragg reflector laser; dynamic optical decisions; extinction ratio improved scheme; extinction ratio improvement; gain 28 dB to 6 dB; input signals; logic NAND gates; logic NOR gates; semiconductor optical amplifier; signal rates; tunable all-optical decision scheme; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Erbium; Extinction ratio; Logic gates; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Optical logic devices; semiconductor optical amplifiers; tunable lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2014.2349274

Filename

6879480