All-optical XOR based on integrated MZI-SOA with Co and counter-propagation scheme

• Author(s): Reis, C. ; Dionísio, R. P. ; Neto, B. ; Teixeira, A. ; André, P. S.
• Date: 2009
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.11/470
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco
• Subject(s): SOA based devices; All-optical signal processing; All-optical logical gates
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

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“Copyright © [2009] IEEE. Reprinted from ICTON-MW 3rd. ISBN:978-1-4244-5745-8. This material is posted here with permission of the IEEE. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by writing to [e-mail]. By choosing to view this document, you agree to all provisions of the copyright laws protecting it.” In this work we present a review of all-optical XOR gates based on Mach-Zehnder Interferometer with Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (MZI-SOA), using NRZ modulated signals driven at 10 Gbit/s. The performance of two alternative schemes for logical XOR gates implementation is demonstrated through numerical simulations and experimentally. The extinction ratio shows high operation performance with low degradation.