17 June 2021 Theoretical investigation of 120 Gb/s all-optical AND and OR logic gates using reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers
Amer Kotb, Kyriakos E. Zoiros, Wei Li, Chunlei Guo
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Abstract

The performance of all-optical (AO) logic AND and OR gates, which are realized for the first time using reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers (RSOAs) as nonlinear elements, is theoretically investigated at 120  Gb  /  s. The switching modules that incorporate the RSOAs and exploit their potential for AO signal processing are the Mach–Zehnder interferometer and the delayed interferometer for the AND and OR operations, respectively. A performance comparison between an RSOA and a conventional semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) is made by examining and assessing the quality factor against the operational critical parameters, including the effect of the amplified spontaneous emission. The obtained results confirm that these Boolean functions based on RSOAs can be executed at the target data rate with better performance than if conventional SOAs were used instead.

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Amer Kotb, Kyriakos E. Zoiros, Wei Li, and Chunlei Guo "Theoretical investigation of 120 Gb/s all-optical AND and OR logic gates using reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers," Optical Engineering 60(6), 066107 (17 June 2021). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.60.6.066107
Received: 15 March 2021; Accepted: 24 May 2021; Published: 17 June 2021
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KEYWORDS
Adaptive optics

Logic devices

Switching

Reflectivity

Logic

Optical engineering

Picosecond phenomena

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