All-optical XOR and XNOR operations at
864 Gb/s using a pair of semiconductor optical amplifier Mach-Zehnder interferometers

Ilnam Kang, Mahmoud Rasras, L. L. Buhl, M. Dinu, S. Cabot, M. Cappuzzo, L.T. Gomez, Y. F. Chen, S. S. Patel, Niloy K. Dutta,

Optics Express · 2009 · 56 citations · 16 references

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We propose a method for increased-speed all-optical XOR operation using semiconductor optical amplifiers. We demonstrate XOR and XNOR operations at 86.4 Gb/s using a pair of photonic-integrated semiconductor optical amplifier Mach-Zehnder interferometers.

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