10 Gbit/s all-optical Boolean XOR with SOA fibreSagnac gate

T. Houbavlis, Kyriakos E. Zoiros, Antonios Hatziefremidis, H. Avramopoulos, L. Occhi, G. Guekos, S. Hansmann, H. Burkhard, R. Dall’Ara

Electronics Letters · 1999 · 101 citations · 7 references

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All-optical Boolean XOR logic is demonstrated with a three terminal fibre Sagnac interferometer employing a semiconductor optical amplifier. Full duty cycle operation at 10 GHz is shown and low pattern dependence has been achieved on a pseudo-data pattern at 10 Gbit/s with low switching energy.

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