Photonic chip-based all-optical XOR gate for 40 and 160 Gbit/s DPSK signals

Trung D. Vo, Ravi Pant, Mark D. Pelusi, Jochen Schröder, Duk Yong Choi, Sukhanta K. Debbarma, Stephen J. Madden, Barry Luther-Davies, Benjamin J. Eggleton

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    Abstract

    We demonstrate a photonic chip-based all-optical exclusive-OR (XOR) gate for phase-encoded optical signals via four-wave mixing in a highly nonlinear, dispersion-engineered chalcogenide (As2S3) planar waveguide. We achieve error-free, XOR operation for 40 Gbit/s differential phase shift keying (DPSK) optical signals with no power penalty. The effectiveness and broad bandwidth operation of our approach is highlighted by implementing an XOR gate for 160 Gbit/s DPSK signals.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)710-712
    Number of pages3
    JournalOptics Letters
    Volume36
    Issue number5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2011

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