All-Optical Binary Full Adder Using Logic Operations Based on the Nonlinear Properties of a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

We propose a new and potentially integrable scheme for the realization of an all-optical binary fulladder employing two XOR gates, two AND gates, and one OR gate. The XOR gate is realized usinga Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) based on a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). The AND andOR gates are based on the nonlinear properties of a semiconductor optical amplifier. The proposed schemeis driven by two input data streams and a carry bit from the previous less-significant bit order position. In our proposed design, we achieve extinction ratios for Sum and Carry output signals of 10 dB and 12dB respectively. Successful operation of the system is demonstrated at 10 Gb/s with return-to-zeromodulated signals KCI Citation Count: 13