• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.197-200
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• 2000

All-optical NOR logic device was realized by use of two pump signals with a single wavelength and a semiconductor optical amplifier(SOA). Specially, Mach-Zehnder(MZ) modulator was used for an external modulation of the pump signals. To obtain the sufficient gain saturation of the SOA, pump signals are amplified by an Er-doped fiber amplifier(EDFA) at the input of the SOA. Pump and probe signals are obtained from a DFB laser diode(${\lambda}_p$=1554 nm) and a tunable laser diode(${\lambda}_s$=1535 nm), respectively. The operation characteristics of the NOR logic device are successfully measured and demonstrated at the modulation frequency of 4.83 MHz.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.530-534
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• 2003

A novel all-optical NOR gate is proposed and demonstrated for the first time by use of gain saturation in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). It is operated by the nonlinearity of the SOA gain. Hence, to obtain sufficient gain saturation of the SOA, pump signals are amplified by an Er-doped fiber amplifier at the input of the SOA. The operation characteristics of the all-optical NOR gate are successfully measured at 10 Gbit/s.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.151-154
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• 2002

All-optical OR logic gate is realized by use of gain saturation and wavelength conversion in the semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA). It is operated by the nonlinearity of the SOA gain and hence to obtain the sufficient gain saturation of the SOA, pump signals are amplified by an Er-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) at the input of the SOA. The operation characteristics of all-optical OR logic gate are successfully measured at 2.5 Gbit/s.