All-Optical 20 Gb/s Logic AND Gate with Tunable Single-Channel Output or Dual-Channel Outputs Using a PPLN waveguide

Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Wang, Jian; Sun, Junqiang; Sun, Qizhen; Zhang, Xinliang; Huang, Dexiu (Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronis, School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Huazhong, University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China)
Sun, Qizhen (Network Technology Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637553, Singapore)
Fejer, M. M. (Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 USA)

Abstract:
We propose and demonstrate at 20 Gb/s a novel logic AND gate using cascaded sum- and differencefrequency generation in a periodically poled LiNbO3 waveguide. Tunable single-channel output and dual-channel outputs are observed in the experiment.