• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.11-15
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• 2006

We have proposed and theoretically verified an optical regenerator using a single semi-reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (SR-SOA). To explain the operation characteristics and the operation condition of the proposed opticalregenerator, the simplified gain model for the SR-SOA is introduced and confirmed by comparing the result of the SOA simulation based on the transfer matrix method (TMM). The simulation results show that both extinction ratio (ER) enhancement and signal amplification can be achieved in the proposed regenerator.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.84-87
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• 2002

SOA (Semiconductor Optical Amplifier)의 inverter 원리를 응용하여 RZ 형식의 전광 XOR논리소자가 5 Gb/s 속도에서 처음으론 구현되었다. 먼저 Boolean AB와 Boolean AB가 실험적으로 구현되었으며 전광 XOR논리소자를 만들기 위해서 AB와 AB를 합하여 XOR의 Boolean 값인 AB+AB의 특성이 얻어졌다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.151-154
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• 2002

선광(all-optical) OR 논리소자가 반도체 광증폭기 (SOA)의 이득포화와 파장변환 특성을 이용하여 구현되었다. 전광(all-optical) OR 논리소자는 이득의 비선형성에 의해 동작되므로 SOA의 이득포화를 충분히 얻기 위해 펌프신호는 SOA의 입력단에서 어븀 첨가 광섬유 증복기(EDFA)에 의해 증폭되었다. 전광 OR논리소자의 동작특성은 2.5 Gbit/s에서 성공적으로 측정되었다.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제2권5호
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• pp.400-406
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• 2018

The Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA)-based Mach-Zehnder interferometer is a major contributor in all-optical digital processing and optical computation. Optical tree architecture provides one of the new, alternative schemes for integrated all-optical arithmetic and logical operations. In this paper, we propose an all-optical 3-bit integrated parity generator and checker using SOA-MZI-based optical tree architecture. The proposed scheme, able to process input signals at a desired operating wavelength, has been characterized using RZ-modulated signals at 10 Gbps. The maximum extinction ratios achieved at the output of the parity generator and checker are 10 dB and 8 dB respectively.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.222-227
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• 2015

We propose a new and potentially integrable scheme for the realization of an all-optical binary full adder employing two XOR gates, two AND gates, and one OR gate. The XOR gate is realized using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) based on a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). The AND and OR gates are based on the nonlinear properties of a semiconductor optical amplifier. The proposed scheme is driven by two input data streams and a carry bit from the previous less-significant bit order position. In our proposed design, we achieve extinction ratios for Sum and Carry output signals of 10 dB and 12 dB respectively. Successful operation of the system is demonstrated at 10 Gb/s with return-to-zero modulated signals.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.530-534
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• 2003

새로운 전광(all-optical) NOR논리소자가 반도체 광증폭기 (SOA)의 이득포화 특성을 이용하여 처음으로 제안되고 입증되었다. 전광 NOR논리소자는 이득의 비선형성에 의해 동작되므로 SOA의 이득포화를 충분히 얻기 위해 펌프신호는 SOA의 입력단에서 어븀 첨가 광섬유 증폭기에 의해 증폭되었다. 전광 NOR 논리소자의 동작특성은 10 Gbit/s에서 성공적으로 측정되었다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.32-39
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• 2018

The impact of the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) on the gain recovery time of a bulk semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) is investigated. The gain-recovery time is obtained by determining the time evolution of the gain, carrier density, and ASE in an SOA, after the propagation of a short pump pulse and continuous-wave (CW) probe of gain dynamics. In the simulation, a wide-band-semiconductor model, which can be characterized by the material gain coefficient over a wide wavelength range, is used, because the gain bandwidth of a practical SOA is very wide. The pump pulse and counterpropagating CW probe field are considered in the simulation, with the ASE noise spectrum equally divided.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.639-645
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• 2014

In this paper, the scheme of a single module for simultaneous operation of all-optical computing circuits, namely half adder and half subtractor, are realized using semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) based logic gates. Optical XOR gate by employing a SOA based Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) configuration is used to get the sum and difference outputs. A carry signal is generated using a SOA-four wave mixing (FWM) based AND gate, whereas, the borrow is generated by employing the SOA-cross gain modulation (XGM) effect. The obtained results confirm the feasibility of our configuration by proving the good level of quality factor i.e. ~5.5, 9.95 and 12.51 for sum/difference, carry and borrow, respectively at 0 dBm of input power.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.65-70
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• 2014

This paper presents the simulation and design of an all-optical subtractor using a quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifier Mach-Zehnder interferometer (QD-SOA MZI) structure consisting of two cascaded switches, the first of which produces the differential bit. Then the second switch produces the borrow bit by using the output of the first switch and the subtrahend data stream. Simulation results were obtained by solving the rate equations of the QD-SOA. The effects of QD-SOA length, peak power and current density have been investigated. The designed gate can operate at speeds of over 250 Gb/s. The simulation results demonstrate a high extinction ratio and a clear and wide-opening eye diagram.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.232-239
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• 2008

We investigated how the polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) tolerance was degraded by semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)-induced chirp for the 10 Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ), duobinary NRZ, return-to-zero (RZ), and carrier-suppressed RZ (CS-RZ) modulation formats. The power penalty was calculated as a measure of the system performance due to PMD for a given SOA-induced chirp. Considering only first-order PMD, all modulation formats have a similar PMD tolerance regardless of SOA-induced chirp. On the other hand, when both first- and second-order PMD are considered, the PMD tolerance of all modulation formats with the exception of the CS-RZ modulation format are degraded by SOA-induced chirp. Among all modulation formats considered here, the NRZ modulation format has the PMD tolerance with the highest sensitivity to SOA-induced chirp. When the peak-to-peak chirp induced by SOAs is $0.28{\AA}$, its PMD tolerance is degraded up to 4 dB for a differential group delay (DGD) of 50 ps. However, the PMD tolerance of the CS-RZ modulation format is largely unaffected by SOA-induced chirp.