Title :
All-optical XOR gate using polarization rotation in single highly nonlinear fiber
Author :
Yu, Changyuan ; Christen, Louis ; Luo, Ting ; Wang, Yan ; Pan, Zhongqi ; Yan, Lian-Shan ; Willner, Alan E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng.-Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
fDate :
6/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We demonstrate a 10-Gb/s all-optical XOR gate based on polarization rotation induced by Kerr effect in a single highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF). Using 2 km of HNLF with a nonlinear coefficient of 9.1 W-1·km-1, we obtain a 25-dB extinction ratio at the XOR output.
Keywords :
optical Kerr effect; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical logic; optical rotation; 10 Gbit/s; 2 km; Kerr effect; all-optical XOR gate; extinction ratio; highly nonlinear fiber; nonlinear coefficient; polarization rotation; Extinction ratio; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Kerr effect; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical mixing; Optical polarization; Optical signal processing; Four-wave mixing; nonlinear optics; optical fiber communication;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2005.846918
