Electronics Letters · 2005 · 32 citations · 4 references
EngineeringElectrical EngineeringOptoelectronicsPhotonicsSemiconductor DevicesNonlinear OpticsOptical AmplifiersOptical Signal ProcessingOptical SwitchingPhotonic Integrated CircuitsUltrafast OpticsAll-optical LogicAll-optical SwitchingLogic Gate ImplementationNonlinear Integrated OpticsNonlinear Optical Signal ProcessingOptical Logic GatesSemiconductor Optical AmplifiersUltrafast Pulse Generation
A novel XOR logic gate using dual cascaded ultrafast nonlinear interferometer elements based on semiconductor optical amplifiers is proposed and demonstrated at 40 Gbit/s. The gate is switched at the line rate rather than twice line rate, as in previously reported differential XOR gates.
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40 Gbit/s all-optical XOR gate based on hybrid-integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer
R.P. Webb, R.J. Manning, G. Maxwell et al. · Electronics Letters · 2003 · 154 citations