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Performance evaluation of optical logic gates using FWM

EMAN S. AZZAM1,* , MOUSTAFA H. ALY2

Affiliation

  1. Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Technology, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Cairo, Egypt, Student Member of OSA
  2. Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Technology, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt, Member of OSA

Abstract

In this study, we introduce a design of all-optical module for half-adder/half-subtracter and 2-to-4 decoder that generates simultaneously five of all-optical logic gates at 10 Gbps. These logic gates use dispersion compensation fiber (DCF) based on four-wave mixing (FWM). This design is integrated and economic. The various outputs can be manipulated by controlling nonlinear polarization rotation (NPR) which achieves low power requirements. The high performance confirms the effectiveness of all presented functionalities at optimized input data signals of 0.01 mW at 10-12 BER with an extinction ratio (ER) greater than 20 dB..

Keywords

Optical Logic Gates, Optics in Computing, Optical Signal Processing, Nonlinear Optics, Four-Wave mixing.

Citation

EMAN S. AZZAM, MOUSTAFA H. ALY, Performance evaluation of optical logic gates using FWM, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 9, 11-12, November-December 2015, pp.1394-1400 (2015).

Submitted at: Sept. 19, 2015

Accepted at: Oct. 28, 2015