Numerical Investigation of a 160-Gb/s Reconfigurable Photonic Logic Gate Based on Cross-Phase Modulation in Fibers

Author

Bogris, Adonis ; Velanas, Pantelis ; Syvridis, Dimitris

Author_Institution

Dept. of Informatics & Telecommun., Univ. of Athens, Illisia

Volume

19

Issue

6

fYear

2007

fDate

3/15/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

402

Lastpage

404

Abstract

A simple reconfigurable all-optical logic gate based on cross-phase modulation in highly nonlinear fibers is numerically demonstrated. Fine performance at 160 Gb/s is obtained for five logic functions (xor, or, nand, nor and not). The implementation simplicity and the high-bit-rate operation make the proposed device suitable for ultrafast applications in the emerging all-optical networks

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; logic gates; nonlinear optics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; optical fibres; optical logic; optical modulation; phase modulation; 160 Gbit/s; all-optical logic gate; all-optical networks; cross-phase modulation; high-bit-rate operation; highly nonlinear fibers; logic functions; optical fibers; photonic logic gate; ultrafast applications; Fiber nonlinear optics; Logic gates; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical signal processing; Probes; Reconfigurable logic; Ultrafast optics; Cross-phase modulation (XPM); nonlinear fiber optics; optical logic;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2007.891977

Filename

4116756