All-Optical XOR Gate Using Integrated SOA Three-Arm-MZI Wavelength Converter
Conference: ECOC 2009 - 35th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/20/2009 - 09/24/2009 at Vienna, Austria
Proceedings: ECOC 2009
Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Takamatsu, Iori; Nissanka, Suresh M.; Maruta, Akihiro; Kitayama, Ken-ichi (Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-Oka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871 Japan)
Shimizu, Katsuhiro; Miyahara, Toshiharu; Aoyagi, Toshitaka; Sugitatsu, Atsushi (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Itami, Hyogo, 664-8641 Japan)
Miyahara, Toshiharu; Aoyagi, Toshitaka; Sugitatsu, Atsushi (Optoelectronic Industry and Technology Development Association - OITDA)
Abstract:
We propose an all-optical XOR gate using integrated SOA three-arm-MZI wavelength converter and experimentally demonstrate an error-free operation converting from two NRZ-OOK signals to one RZ-OOK signal by achieving the XOR operation.