All-optical XOR logic gate for 40Gb/s DPSK signals via FWM in a silicon nanowire

doi:10.1364/OE.19.020364

All-optical XOR logic gate for 40Gb/s DPSK signals via FWM in a silicon nanowire

F. Li, T. D. Vo, C. Husko, M. Pelusi, D.-X. Xu, A. Densmore, R. Ma, S. Janz, B. J. Eggleton, and D. J. Moss »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 21, pp. 20364-20371 (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.020364

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We demonstrate an all-optical XOR logic function for 40Gb/s differential phase-shift keyed (DPSK) data signals in the C-band, based on four-wave mixing (FWM) in a silicon nanowire. Error-free operation with a system penalty of ~3.0dB and ~4.3dB at 10⁻⁹ BER is achieved.

OCIS Codes
(130.0130) Integrated optics : Integrated optics
(130.5990) Integrated optics : Semiconductors
(160.4330) Materials : Nonlinear optical materials
(190.4380) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing

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History
Original Manuscript: June 27, 2011
Revised Manuscript: September 15, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: September 15, 2011
Published: October 3, 2011

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F. Li, T. D. Vo, C. Husko, M. Pelusi, D.-X. Xu, A. Densmore, R. Ma, S. Janz, B. J. Eggleton, and D. J. Moss, "All-optical XOR logic gate for 40Gb/s DPSK signals via FWM in a silicon nanowire," Opt. Express 19, 20364-20371 (2011)
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Nature Photonics Workshop on the Future of Optical Communications; Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 2007. www.nature.com/nphoton/supplements/techconference2007
B. Metcalfe, Toward Terabit Ethernet Plenary Talk, Optical Fiber Communications 2008, see www.ofcnfoec.org/conference_program/Plenary-video.aspx and www.lightreading.com/tv/tv_popup.asp?doc_id=146223
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B. J. Eggleton, D. J. Moss, and S. Radic, Nonlinear Optics in Communications: From Crippling Impairment to Ultrafast Tools Ch. 20 (Academic Press, Oxford, 2008).
H. C. H. Mulvad, M. Galili, L. K. Oxenløwe, H. Hu, A. T. Clausen, J. B. Jensen, C. Peucheret, and P. Jeppesen, “Demonstration of 5.1 Tbit/s data capacity on a single-wavelength channel,” Opt. Express18(2), 1438–1443 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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J. Qiu, K. Sun, M. Rochette, and L. R. Chen, “Reconfigurable all-optical multi-logic gate (XOR, AND, and OR) based on cross phase modulation in a highly nonlinear fiber,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.22(16), 1199–1201 (2010). [CrossRef]
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J. Wang, Q. Sun, and J. Sun, “All-optical 40 Gbit/s CSRZ-DPSK logic XOR gate and format conversion using four-wave mixing,” Opt. Express17(15), 12555–12563 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
N. Deng, K. Chan, C.-K. Chan, and L.-K. Chen, “An all-optical XOR logic gate for high-speed RZ-DPSK signals by FWM in semiconductor optical amplifier,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron.12(4), 702–707 (2006). [CrossRef]
J. Wang, J. Sun, X. Zhang, D. Huang, and M. M. Fejer, “Ultrafast all-optical three-input Boolean XOR operation for differential phase-shift keying signals using periodically poled lithium niobate,” Opt. Lett.33(13), 1419–1421 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
M. R. E. Lamont, V. G. Ta’eed, M. A. F. Roelens, D. J. Moss, B. J. Eggleton, D.-Y. Choi, S. Madden, and B. Luther-Davies, “Error-free wavelength conversion via cross phase modulation in 5 cm of As2S3 chalcogenide glass rib waveguide,” Electron. Lett.43(17), 945 (2007). [CrossRef]
D. I. Yeom, E. C. Mägi, M. R. E. Lamont, M. A. F. Roelens, L. Fu, and B. J. Eggleton, “Low-threshold supercontinuum generation in highly nonlinear chalcogenide nanowires,” Opt. Lett.33(7), 660–662 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
R. Salem, M. A. Foster, A. C. Turner, D. F. Geraghty, M. Lipson, and A. L. Gaeta, “Signal regeneration using low-power four-wave mixing on silicon chip,” Nat. Photonics2(1), 35–38 (2008). [CrossRef]
T. D. Vo, R. Pant, M. D. Pelusi, J. Schröder, D.-Y. Choi, S. K. Debbarma, S. J. Madden, B. Luther-Davies, and B. J. Eggleton, “Photonic chip-based all-optical XOR gate for 40 and 160 Gbit/s DPSK signals,” Opt. Lett.36(5), 710–712 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
Q. Xu and M. Lipson, “All-optical logic based on silicon micro-ring resonators,” Opt. Express15(3), 924–929 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
L. Zhang, R. Q. Ji, L. X. Jia, L. Yang, P. Zhou, Y. H. Tian, P. Chen, Y. Y. Lu, Z. Y. Jiang, Y. L. Liu, Q. Fang, and M. B. Yu, “Demonstration of directed XOR/XNOR logic gates using two cascaded microring resonators,” Opt. Lett.35(10), 1620–1622 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
D. J. Moss, L. Fu, I. Littler, and B. J. Eggleton, “Ultrafast all-optical modulation via two-photon absorption in silicon-on-insulator waveguides,” Electron. Lett.41(6), 320 (2005). [CrossRef]
T. Liang, L. Nunes, M. Tsuchiya, K. Abedin, T. Miyazaki, D. Vanthourhout, W. Bogaerts, P. Dumon, R. Baets, and H. Tsang, “High speed logic gate using twophoton absorption in silicon waveguides,” Opt. Commun.265(1), 171–174 (2006). [CrossRef]
V. M. N. Passaro and F. De Passaro, “All-optical AND gate based on Raman effect in silicon-on-insulator waveguide,” Opt. Quantum Electron.38(9-11), 877–888 (2007). [CrossRef]
D. C. Wheeler and D. C. Hall, “Optical interference logic in silicon-on-insulator waveguides,” Proc. SPIE6130, 61300G, 61300G-8 (2006). [CrossRef]
M. Khorasaninejad and S. S. Saini, “All-optical logic gates using nonlinear effects in silicon-on-insulator waveguides,” Appl. Opt.48(25), F31–F37 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
B. G. Lee, A. Biberman, A. C. Turner-Foster, M. A. Foster, M. Lipson, A. L. Gaeta, and K. Bergman, “Demonstration of broadband wavelength conversion at 40 Gb/s in silicon waveguides,” IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett.21(3), 182–184 (2009). [CrossRef]
F. Li, M. Pelusi, D. X. Xu, A. Densmore, R. Ma, S. Janz, and D. J. Moss, “Error-free all-optical demultiplexing at 160Gb/s via FWM in a silicon nanowire,” Opt. Express18(4), 3905–3910 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
H. Ji, M. Pu, H. Hu, M. Galili, L. K. Oxenlowe, K. Yvind, J. M. Hvam, and P. Jeppesen, “Optical Waveform Sampling and Error-Free Demultiplexing of 1.28 Tb/s Serial Data in a Nanoengineered Silicon Waveguide,” J. Lightwave Technol.29(4), 426–431 (2011). [CrossRef]
B. Corcoran, T. D. Vo, M. D. Pelusi, C. Monat, D.-X. Xu, A. Densmore, R. Ma, S. Janz, D. J. Moss, and B. J. Eggleton, “Silicon Nanowire Based Radio-Frequency Spectrum Analyzer,” Opt. Express18(19), 20190–20200 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
C. J. McKinstrie, R. O. Moore, S. Radic, and R. Jiang, “Phase-sensitive amplification of chirped optical pulses in fibers,” Opt. Express15(7), 3737–3758 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
R. Slavík, F. Parmigiani, J. Kakande, C. Lundstrom, M. Sjodin, P. A. Andrekson, R. Weerasuriya, S. Sygletos, A. D. Ellis, L. Gruner-Nielsen, D. Jakobsen, S. Herstrom, R. Phelan, J. O'Gorman, A. Bogris, D. Syvridis, S. Dasgupta, P. Petropoulos, and D. J. Richardson, “All-optical phase and amplitude regenerator for next-generation telecommunications systems,” Nat. Photonics4(10), 690–695 (2010). [CrossRef]

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[1] Nature Photonics Workshop on the Future of Optical Communications; Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 2007. www.nature.com/nphoton/supplements/techconference2007

[2] B. Metcalfe, Toward Terabit Ethernet Plenary Talk, Optical Fiber Communications 2008, see www.ofcnfoec.org/conference_program/Plenary-video.aspx and www.lightreading.com/tv/tv_popup.asp?doc_id=146223

[3] M. Galili, J. Xu, H. C. Mulvad, L. K. Oxenløwe, A. T. Clausen, P. Jeppesen, B. Luther-Davies, S. Madden, A. Rode, D.-Y. Choi, M. Pelusi, F. Luan, and B. J. Eggleton, “Breakthrough switching speed with an all-optical chalcogenide glass chip: 640 Gbit/s demultiplexing,” Opt. Express17(4), 2182–2187 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[4] B. J. Eggleton, D. J. Moss, and S. Radic, Nonlinear Optics in Communications: From Crippling Impairment to Ultrafast Tools Ch. 20 (Academic Press, Oxford, 2008).

[5] H. C. H. Mulvad, M. Galili, L. K. Oxenløwe, H. Hu, A. T. Clausen, J. B. Jensen, C. Peucheret, and P. Jeppesen, “Demonstration of 5.1 Tbit/s data capacity on a single-wavelength channel,” Opt. Express18(2), 1438–1443 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[6] D. Hillerkuss, R. Schmogrow, T. Schellinger, M. Jordan, M. Winter, G. Huber, T. Vallaitis, R. Bonk, P. Kleinow, F. Frey, M. Roeger, S. Koenig, A. Ludwig, A. Marculescu, J. Li, M. Hoh, M. Dreschmann, J. Meyer, S. Ben Ezra, N. Narkiss, B. Nebendahl, F. Parmigiani, P. Petropoulos, B. Resan, A. Oehler, K. Weingarten, T. Ellermeyer, J. Lutz, M. Moeller, M. Huebner, J. Becker, C. Koos, W. Freude, and J. Leuthold, “26 Tbit s?1 line-rate super-channel transmission utilizing all-optical fast Fourier transform processing,” Nat. Photonics5(6), 364–371 (2011). [CrossRef]

[7] J. Qiu, K. Sun, M. Rochette, and L. R. Chen, “Reconfigurable all-optical multi-logic gate (XOR, AND, and OR) based on cross phase modulation in a highly nonlinear fiber,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.22(16), 1199–1201 (2010). [CrossRef]

[8] A. Bogoni, X. Wu, Z. Bakhtiari, S. Nuccio, and A. E. Willner, “640 Gbits/s photonic logic gates,” Opt. Lett.35(23), 3955–3957 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[9] J. Wang, Q. Sun, and J. Sun, “All-optical 40 Gbit/s CSRZ-DPSK logic XOR gate and format conversion using four-wave mixing,” Opt. Express17(15), 12555–12563 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[10] N. Deng, K. Chan, C.-K. Chan, and L.-K. Chen, “An all-optical XOR logic gate for high-speed RZ-DPSK signals by FWM in semiconductor optical amplifier,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron.12(4), 702–707 (2006). [CrossRef]

[11] J. Wang, J. Sun, X. Zhang, D. Huang, and M. M. Fejer, “Ultrafast all-optical three-input Boolean XOR operation for differential phase-shift keying signals using periodically poled lithium niobate,” Opt. Lett.33(13), 1419–1421 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[12] M. R. E. Lamont, V. G. Ta’eed, M. A. F. Roelens, D. J. Moss, B. J. Eggleton, D.-Y. Choi, S. Madden, and B. Luther-Davies, “Error-free wavelength conversion via cross phase modulation in 5 cm of As2S3 chalcogenide glass rib waveguide,” Electron. Lett.43(17), 945 (2007). [CrossRef]

[13] D. I. Yeom, E. C. Mägi, M. R. E. Lamont, M. A. F. Roelens, L. Fu, and B. J. Eggleton, “Low-threshold supercontinuum generation in highly nonlinear chalcogenide nanowires,” Opt. Lett.33(7), 660–662 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[14] R. Salem, M. A. Foster, A. C. Turner, D. F. Geraghty, M. Lipson, and A. L. Gaeta, “Signal regeneration using low-power four-wave mixing on silicon chip,” Nat. Photonics2(1), 35–38 (2008). [CrossRef]

[15] T. D. Vo, R. Pant, M. D. Pelusi, J. Schröder, D.-Y. Choi, S. K. Debbarma, S. J. Madden, B. Luther-Davies, and B. J. Eggleton, “Photonic chip-based all-optical XOR gate for 40 and 160 Gbit/s DPSK signals,” Opt. Lett.36(5), 710–712 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[16] Q. Xu and M. Lipson, “All-optical logic based on silicon micro-ring resonators,” Opt. Express15(3), 924–929 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[17] L. Zhang, R. Q. Ji, L. X. Jia, L. Yang, P. Zhou, Y. H. Tian, P. Chen, Y. Y. Lu, Z. Y. Jiang, Y. L. Liu, Q. Fang, and M. B. Yu, “Demonstration of directed XOR/XNOR logic gates using two cascaded microring resonators,” Opt. Lett.35(10), 1620–1622 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[18] D. J. Moss, L. Fu, I. Littler, and B. J. Eggleton, “Ultrafast all-optical modulation via two-photon absorption in silicon-on-insulator waveguides,” Electron. Lett.41(6), 320 (2005). [CrossRef]

[19] T. Liang, L. Nunes, M. Tsuchiya, K. Abedin, T. Miyazaki, D. Vanthourhout, W. Bogaerts, P. Dumon, R. Baets, and H. Tsang, “High speed logic gate using twophoton absorption in silicon waveguides,” Opt. Commun.265(1), 171–174 (2006). [CrossRef]

[20] V. M. N. Passaro and F. De Passaro, “All-optical AND gate based on Raman effect in silicon-on-insulator waveguide,” Opt. Quantum Electron.38(9-11), 877–888 (2007). [CrossRef]

[21] D. C. Wheeler and D. C. Hall, “Optical interference logic in silicon-on-insulator waveguides,” Proc. SPIE6130, 61300G, 61300G-8 (2006). [CrossRef]

[22] M. Khorasaninejad and S. S. Saini, “All-optical logic gates using nonlinear effects in silicon-on-insulator waveguides,” Appl. Opt.48(25), F31–F37 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[23] B. G. Lee, A. Biberman, A. C. Turner-Foster, M. A. Foster, M. Lipson, A. L. Gaeta, and K. Bergman, “Demonstration of broadband wavelength conversion at 40 Gb/s in silicon waveguides,” IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett.21(3), 182–184 (2009). [CrossRef]

[24] F. Li, M. Pelusi, D. X. Xu, A. Densmore, R. Ma, S. Janz, and D. J. Moss, “Error-free all-optical demultiplexing at 160Gb/s via FWM in a silicon nanowire,” Opt. Express18(4), 3905–3910 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[25] H. Ji, M. Pu, H. Hu, M. Galili, L. K. Oxenlowe, K. Yvind, J. M. Hvam, and P. Jeppesen, “Optical Waveform Sampling and Error-Free Demultiplexing of 1.28 Tb/s Serial Data in a Nanoengineered Silicon Waveguide,” J. Lightwave Technol.29(4), 426–431 (2011). [CrossRef]

[26] B. Corcoran, T. D. Vo, M. D. Pelusi, C. Monat, D.-X. Xu, A. Densmore, R. Ma, S. Janz, D. J. Moss, and B. J. Eggleton, “Silicon Nanowire Based Radio-Frequency Spectrum Analyzer,” Opt. Express18(19), 20190–20200 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[27] C. J. McKinstrie, R. O. Moore, S. Radic, and R. Jiang, “Phase-sensitive amplification of chirped optical pulses in fibers,” Opt. Express15(7), 3737–3758 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[28] R. Slavík, F. Parmigiani, J. Kakande, C. Lundstrom, M. Sjodin, P. A. Andrekson, R. Weerasuriya, S. Sygletos, A. D. Ellis, L. Gruner-Nielsen, D. Jakobsen, S. Herstrom, R. Phelan, J. O'Gorman, A. Bogris, D. Syvridis, S. Dasgupta, P. Petropoulos, and D. J. Richardson, “All-optical phase and amplitude regenerator for next-generation telecommunications systems,” Nat. Photonics4(10), 690–695 (2010). [CrossRef]

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