Cascade of ultrafast soliton-dragging and trapping logic gates

As part of the header decoding circuit for a 100-Gb/s ring local area network, a soliton-dragging NOR gate followed by a soliton-trapping AND gate that can operate up to bit rates of 0.2 THz was demonstrated. The soliton-dragging NOR gate has a time-shift-keyed output, while the soliton-trapping AND...

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Published in:IEEE photonics technology letters 1992-09, Vol.4 (9), p.1043-1046
Main Authors: Soccolich, C.E., Chbat, M.W., Islam, M.N., Prucnal, P.R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bit rate
Circuits
Decoding
Energy measurement
Exact sciences and technology
Fundamental areas of phenomenology (including applications)
Local area networks
Logic gates
Loss measurement
Numerical simulation
Optics
Physics
Quantum optics
Schrodinger equation
Timing jitter
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Summary:As part of the header decoding circuit for a 100-Gb/s ring local area network, a soliton-dragging NOR gate followed by a soliton-trapping AND gate that can operate up to bit rates of 0.2 THz was demonstrated. The soliton-dragging NOR gate has a time-shift-keyed output, while the soliton-trapping AND gate converts the time shifts to an energy contrast. Even with timing jitter and coupling losses, the measured output energy contrast is approximately 12:1. The experimental results are in good agreement with numerical simulations of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation.< >
ISSN:1041-1135
1941-0174
DOI:10.1109/68.157143