• DocumentCode
    1087499
  • Title

    40 Gbit=s reconfigurable photonic logic gates based on various nonlinearities in single SOA

  • Author

    Dong, J. ; Zhang, X. ; Wang, Y. ; Xu, J. ; Huang, D.

  • Author_Institution
    Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan
  • Volume
    43
  • Issue
    16
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    884
  • Lastpage
    886
  • Abstract
    40 Gbit/s reconfigurable photonic logic gates with XNOR, AND, NOR, OR and NOT functions are demonstrated, based on various nonlinearities of a single semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA), including four-wave mixing (FWM), cross-gain modulation (XGM) and transient cross-phase modulation (T-XPM). Detuning optical bandpass filters are employed to enhance the SOA modulation bandwidth.
  • Keywords
    band-pass filters; logic gates; multiwave mixing; optical filters; optical logic; optical modulation; phase modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; cross-gain modulation; four-wave mixing; modulation bandwidth; optical bandpass filter detuning; reconfigurable photonic logic gate; semiconductor optical amplifier; transient cross-phase modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20071220
  • Filename
    4286789