All-Optical Logic Gate for XOR Operation Between 40-Gbaud QPSK Tributaries in an Ultra-Short Silicon Nanowire

We demonstrate an all-optical XOR logic gate for 40-Gbaud quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) tributaries in a silicon nanowire for the first time. The XOR logic operation is realized based on four-wave mixing (FWM) in the C-band. Experimental results show negligible power penalty at a bit error ra...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE photonics journal 2014-06, Vol.6 (3), p.1-7
Hauptverfasser: Yin, Zuoshan, Wu, Jian, Zang, Jizhao, Kong, Deming, Qiu, Jifang, Shi, Jindan, Li, Wuyi, Wei, Shile, Lin, Jintong
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Zusammenfassung:We demonstrate an all-optical XOR logic gate for 40-Gbaud quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) tributaries in a silicon nanowire for the first time. The XOR logic operation is realized based on four-wave mixing (FWM) in the C-band. Experimental results show negligible power penalty at a bit error ratio (BER) of 10 -6 compared with the back-to-back signals. The BER floor appears at BER of 10 -6 for both I and Q tributaries of the logic operation, and the main reasons are the optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) deterioration caused by nonlinear loss due to free carrier absorption (FCA) and two-photon absorption (TPA) and the cross-phase modulation (XPM)-induced phase impairments.
ISSN:1943-0655
1943-0647
DOI:10.1109/JPHOT.2014.2319101