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17 August 2010 All optical logic NAND gate based on two-photon absorption
A. Kotb, S. Ma, Z. Chen, N. K. Dutta, G. Said
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Abstract
When the two-photon absorption of a high intensity pump beam takes place in a semiconductor optical amplifier there is an associated fast phase change of a weak probe signal. A scheme to realize fast all-optical NAND logic function using two-photon absorption induced phase change has been analyzed. NAND gate is important because other Boolean logic elements and circuits can be demonstrated using NAND gates as a basic building block. Rate equations for semiconductor optical amplifiers (for input data signals with high intensity) configured in the form of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer has been solved. The input intensities are high enough so that the two-photon induced phase change is larger than the regular gain induced phase change. The model shows that both AND and NAND operation at 250 Gb/s with good signal to noise ratio is feasible.
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A. Kotb, S. Ma, Z. Chen, N. K. Dutta, and G. Said "All optical logic NAND gate based on two-photon absorption", Proc. SPIE 7781, Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications IV, 77810D (17 August 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858177
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KEYWORDS
Absorption

Logic

Semiconductor optical amplifiers

Phase shift keying

Picosecond phenomena

Eye models

Mach-Zehnder interferometers

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