Title :
A novel 40 Gb/s all-optical XOR logic gate
Author :
Zhou, Yunfeng ; Wu, Jian ; Lin, Jintong
Author_Institution :
Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., China
Abstract :
A simple novel scheme of all-optical XOR logic gate based on SOA-based Sagnac interferometric loop mirror is proposed for the first time. Numerical simulation at 40 Gb/s is demonstrated with fairly high performance.
Keywords :
Sagnac interferometers; logic gates; optical logic; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 40 Gbit/s; SOA-based Sagnac interferometric loop mirror; all-optical XOR logic gate; Logic devices; Logic gates; Mirrors; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber couplers; Optical interferometry; Optical signal processing; Probes; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8557-8
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363582