Demonstration of 20-Gb/s All-Optical XOR Gate by Four-Wave Mixing in Semiconductor Optical Amplifier With RZ-DPSK Modulated Inputs

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 897-899

  Chan, Kit ^a   Chan, Chun Kit ^a   Chen, Lian Kuan ^a   Tong, Frank ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

All optical XOR gate; Return to zero differential phase shifted keying (RZ DPSK); Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)

Indexed keywords

DEMULTIPLEXING; FOUR WAVE MIXING; GATES (TRANSISTOR); INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

CROSS-PHASE MODULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (SOA);

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 1642602719     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.823750     Document Type: Article

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