All-optical logic NOR gate using two-cascaded semiconductor optical amplifiers

A. Hamie1, A. Sharaiha1, M. Guegan1, B. Pucel1
1Laboratoire RESO, Ecole Nationale dE28099Ingénieurs de Brest, Technopôle Brest-Iroise, Brest, France

Tóm tắt

The authors present a novel all-optical logic NOR gate using two-cascaded semiconductor optical. amplifiers (SOAs) in a counterpropagating feedback configuration. This configuration accentuates the gain nonlinearity due to the mutual gain modulation of the two SOAs. The all-optical NOR gate feasibility has been demonstrated delivering an extinction ratio higher than 12 dB over a wide range of wavelength.

Từ khóa

#Logic gates #Semiconductor optical amplifiers #Power generation #Optical feedback #Extinction ratio #Optical fiber communication #Optical devices #Topology #High speed optical techniques #Nonlinear optics

Tài liệu tham khảo

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