All-optical high speed logic gates using SOA

In this paper a novel and simple structure of a high speed optical logic gate based on bulk semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) is presented. The gain dynamic and phase response of bulk SOA using rate equations including the dynamics of carrier heating (CH) and spectral-hole burning (SHB) is investigated numerically. The operation of NOR gate is analyzed by using the presented numerical method, and a NOR gate that can operate up to 1 Tbps is designed. By using the proposed structure, high speed logic gates based on bulk SOA can be realized.