All-optical XOR operation of 40 Gbit/s phase-shift-keyed data using four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifier

15 April 2004

journal article
Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters

Vol. 40 (8) , 496-498
https://doi.org/10.1049/el:20040343

Abstract

All-optical XOR operation of two 40 Gbit/s phase-shift-keyed data is demonstrated for the first time employing four-wave mixing in a semiconductor amplifier. The XOR operation is performed with 0.7 dB degradation in signal-to-noise ratio Q².

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