Cavity-enhanced four-wave-mixing in an integrated semiconductor ring laser for all-optical logic operations

Bei Li; Siyuan Yu

doi:10.1117/12.852165

1 December 2009 Cavity-enhanced four-wave-mixing in an integrated semiconductor ring laser for all-optical logic operations

Bei Li, Siyuan Yu

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Proceedings Volume 7632, Optical Transmission Systems, Switching, and Subsystems VII; 76322A (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.852165
Event: Asia Communications and Photonics, 2009, Shanghai, Shanghai , China

Abstract

Novel all-optical implementations for logic AND and XOR gates are experimentally demonstrated at 2.5Gb/s based on cavity-enhanced four-wave-mixing (CE-FWM) combined with optical injection locking phenomena in monolithically integrated semiconductor ring lasers (SRLs). All-optical AND gate with simultaneous wavelength conversion have been achieved using the CE-FWM. XOR function is demonstrated using two parallel SRLs, each performing one part of XOR Boolean equation A ⊕B = A B¯ + AB¯ . Error-free operation with extinction ratio higher than 10dB confirms the suitability of SRLs for all-optical logic applications.

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Bei Li and Siyuan Yu "Cavity-enhanced four-wave-mixing in an integrated semiconductor ring laser for all-optical logic operations", Proc. SPIE 7632, Optical Transmission Systems, Switching, and Subsystems VII, 76322A (1 December 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.852165

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