All-optical binary counter

Optics Express

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 69-74

  Poustie, Alistair ^a   Manning, R J ^a   Kelly, A E ^a   Blow, K J ^b  

^a MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRY LOGIC; COUNTING CIRCUITS; LOGIC CIRCUITS; LOGIC GATES; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ALL-OPTICAL BINARY COUNTERS; BINARY CARRY DETECTION; OPTICAL LOGIC; TIME-OF-FLIGHT OPTICAL CIRCUITS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 3242786453     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.6.000069     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. D. Cotter, J. K. Lucek, P. Gunning, D. G. Moodie, A. J. Poustie, K. J. Blow, R. J. Manning, "Ultrafast networks using high-speed RZ optical pulses for transmission, routing and processing" in New Trends in Optical Soliton Communications, A. Hasegawa, ed. (Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, 1998).
2. D. Cotter and A. D. Ellis, "Asynchronous digital optical regeneration and networks," IEEE J. Lightwave Technol. 16, 2068-2080 (1998).
3. A. J. Poustie, K. J. Blow, A. E. Kelly and R. J. Manning, "All-optical parity checker with bit-differential delay," Opt. Commun. 162, 37-43 (1999).
4. A. J. Poustie, K. J. Blow and R. J. Manning, "All-optical regenerative memory for long term data storage," Opt. Commun. 140, 184-186 (1997).
5. A. J. Poustie, K. J. Blow, A. E. Kelly and R. J. Manning, "All-optical full adder with bit-differential delay," Opt. Commun. 168, 89-93 (1999).
6. J. P. Sokoloff, P. R. Prucnal, I. Glesk and M. Kane, "A Terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer (TOAD)," IEEE Phot. Tech. Lett. 5, 787-790 (1993).
7. K. L. Hall, J. P. Donnelly, S. H. Groves, C. I. Fennelly, R. A. Bailey and A. Napoleone, "40Gbit/s all-optical circulating shift register with an inverter," Opt. Lett. 22, 1479-1481 (1997).
8. A. J. Poustie, R. J. Manning and K. J. Blow, "All-optical circulating shift register using a semiconductor optical amplifier in a fibre loop mirror," Electron. Lett. 32, 1215-1216 (1996).
9. A. J. Poustie, K. J. Blow, R. J. Manning and A. E. Kelly, "All-optical pseudorandom number generator," Opt. Commun. 159, 208-214 (1999).
10. H. F. Jordan, V. P. Heuringand R. Feuerstein, "Optoelectronic time-of-flight design and the demonstration of an all-optical, stored program, digital computer," Proc. IEEE 82, 1678-1689 (1994).
11. K. L. Hall and K. A. Rauschenbach, "100Gbit/s bitwise logic," Opt. Lett. 23, 1271-1273 (1998).
12. A.E. Kelly, I. D. Phillips, R. J. Manning, A. D. Ellis, D. Nesset, D. G. Moodie and R. Kashyap, "80Gbit/s all-optical regenerative wavelength conversion using semiconductor optical amplifier based interferometer," Electron. Lett. 35, 1477-1478 (1999).
13. A. J. Poustie, K. J. Blow, A. E. Kelly and R. J. Manning, "All-optical binary half-adder," Opt. Commun. 156, 22-26 (1998).
14. E. Jahn, N. Agrawal, W. Peiper, H. J. Ehrke, D. Franke, W. Furst and C. M. Weinert, "Monolithically integrated nonlinear Sagnac interferometer and its application as a 20 Obit's all-optical demultiplexer," Electron. Lett. 32, 782-784 (1996).
15. E. Jahn, N. Agrawal, M. Arbert, H. J. Ehrke, D. Franke, R. Ludwig, W. Peiper, H. G. Weber and C. M. Weinert, "40 Gbit/s all-optical demultiplexing using a monolithically integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer with semiconductor laser amplifiers," Electron. Lett. 31, 1857-1858 (1995).
16. B. Mikkelsen, T. Durhuus, C. Joergensen, R. J. S. Pedersen, S. L. Danielsen, K. E. Stubkjaer, M. Gustavsson, W. Van Berlo and M. Janson, "10Gbit/s wavelength convertoer realised by monolithic integration of semiconductor optical amplifiers and Michelson interferometer," Postdeadline paper, Proceedings ECOC '94 Florence, 1994.
17. J. Leuthold, P. A. Besse, J. Eckner, E. Gamper, M. Dulk and H. Melchior, "All-optical space switches with gain and principally ideal extinction ratios," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 34, 622-633 (1998).
18. J. Sasaki, H. Hatakeyama, T. Tamanuki, S. Kitamura, M. Yamaguchi, N. Kitamura, T. Shimoda, M. Kitamura, T. Kato and M. Itoh, "Hybrid integrated 4×4 optical matrix switch using self-aligned semiconductor optical amplifier gate arrays and silica planar lightwave circuit," Electron. Lett. 34, 986-987 (1998).
19. A. F. Benner, J. Bowman, T. Erkkila, R. J. Feuerstein, V. P. Heuring, H. F. Jordan, J. Sauer and T. Soukup, "Digital optical counter using directional coupler switches," Appl. Opt. 30, 4179-4189 (1991).