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The performance of soliton all-optical logic NOR gate with semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs)-assisted a Mach–Zehnder interferometer is theoretically analyzed and investigated. The dependence of the output quality factor on the soliton characteristics and SOA parameters is studied. The achieved results confirm that the soliton-based all-optical NOR gate is indeed feasible with the proposed scheme at a data rate of 80 Gb/s with logical correctness and acceptable quality.
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Kotb, A. Theoretical analysis of soliton NOR gate with semiconductor optical amplifier-assisted Mach–Zehnder interferometer. Opt Quant Electron 49, 180 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-017-1017-4
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