Ultrafast all-optical exclusive OR operation with semiconductor optical amplifier-assisted fiber Sagnac switch

Thanassis Houbavlis; Kyriakos Zoiros

doi:10.1117/1.1599362

1 September 2003 Ultrafast all-optical exclusive OR operation with semiconductor optical amplifier-assisted fiber Sagnac switch

Thanassis Houbavlis, Kyriakos Zoiros

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 42, Issue 9, (September 2003). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1599362

All-optical Boolean exclusive OR operation is demonstrated on a high-speed serial bit stream with a three-optical-input-fiber Sagnac interferometer that employs a semiconductor optical amplifier as the nonlinear element. Full duty cycle bit switching has been achieved at 20 GHz with low switching energies and contrast ratio as high as 10.4 dB.

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Thanassis Houbavlis and Kyriakos Zoiros "Ultrafast all-optical exclusive OR operation with semiconductor optical amplifier-assisted fiber Sagnac switch," Optical Engineering 42(9), (1 September 2003). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1599362

Published: 1 September 2003

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