Citation:R. J. Manning, R. P. Webb, J. M. Dailey, G. D. Maxwell, R. J. Manning, A. J. Poustie, S. Lardenois, and D. Cotter, "Use of Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers in Signal Processing Applications," in Nonlinear Photonics, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2010), paper NMB1. 21-24 June 2010, Karslruhe, Germany
Abstract:
We describe a 42.6 Gbit/s all-optical pattern recognition system which uses semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs). A circuit with three SOA-based logic gates is used to identify the presence of specific port numbers in an optical packet header.