Ultrahigh bit-rate all-optical multibit correlator based on quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers

Limei Zhang; Zhi Wang; Lanlan Liu

doi:10.1117/1.OE.52.11.116104

6 November 2013 Ultrahigh bit-rate all-optical multibit correlator based on quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers

Limei Zhang, Zhi Wang, Lanlan Liu

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 52, Issue 11, 116104 (November 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.11.116104

Abstract

An all-optical multibit correlator using the multistage cascaded quantum dots semiconductor optical amplifiers Mach-Zehnder interferometer (QD-SOA MZI) is presented with the example of an 8-bits correlator. The simulations demonstrate the correlator pulse with ultrahigh quality at the bit rate of 500 Gbps. For the ultrahigh bit-rate applications, the ultrafast dynamics of the QD-SOA are investigated with the pulse/spectra distortion, gain dynamics, phase dynamics, and the frequency chirp of the optical pulse. All-optical logical gates XOR and AND based on the QD-SOA MZI are simulated with the consideration of many nonlinear dynamics, such as the carrier injection, carrier depletion, carrier density fluctuation, carrier heating, and the spectra hole-burning in the rate equations scheme.

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Limei Zhang, Zhi Wang, and Lanlan Liu "Ultrahigh bit-rate all-optical multibit correlator based on quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers," Optical Engineering 52(11), 116104 (6 November 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.11.116104

Published: 6 November 2013

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