An all-optical XOR logic gate for high-speed RZ-DPSK signals by FWM in semiconductor optical amplifier
- 7 August 2006
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
- Vol. 12 (4) , 702-707
- https://doi.org/10.1109/jstqe.2006.876603
Abstract
All-optical exclusive-OR (XOR) logic gate is a basic and crucial element for optical signal processing. We propose and demonstrate a novel high-speed all-optical XOR gate based on four-wave mixing (FWM) in a semiconductor optical amplifier, with optical return-to-zero differential phase-shift keying (RZ-DPSK) input signals. With this constant-envelope modulation format, the patterning effect-induced signal degradation in semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) is alleviated. The proposed XOR gate can accommodate both two-input and three-input logic operations, which offer better flexibility for cascaded all-optical processing. Experimental demonstrations at 10- and 20-Gb/s verified the logic integrity of the proposed XOR gate. In addition, the XOR output tolerance against temporal misalignment among the data inputs is also experimentally investigatedKeywords
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