Integrated all-optical 2-bit decoder based on semiconductor optical amplifiers

Author

Cabezon, Miguel ; Sotelo, Felix ; Altabas, Jose A. ; Garces, Juan Ignacio ; Villafranca, Asier

Author_Institution

Photonics Technol. Group (I3A), Univ. of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

fYear

2014

fDate

6-10 July 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, the architecture of an SOA-based N-bit decoder, with minimum number of SOAs using Cross-Gain Modulation (XGM), is described. A 2-bit decoder is integrated under Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) photonic foundries in indium phosphide (InP) technology. Its output signals are analysed off chip and its performance is evaluated at 10 Gbps with RZ amplitude-modulated signals.

Keywords

amplitude modulation; decoding; foundries; indium compounds; integrated optics; optical modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; InP; RZ amplitude-modulated signals; SOA-based N-bit decoder; XGM; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; cross-gain modulation; indium phosphide; integrated all-optical 2-bit decoder; multiproject wafer photonic foundries; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Decoding; High-speed optical techniques; Logic gates; Nonlinear optics; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; InP; XGM; all-optical logic; decoder; semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2014 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Graz

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876637

Filename

6876637