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Design of dual semiconductor optical amplifier structure based all-optical standard quaternary inverter and quaternary clocked SR flip-flop

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In this communication, an all-optical Standard Quaternary Inverter (SQI) has been designed using the Dual Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (DSOA) structure. An all-optical circuit of a Quaternary Clocked SR(QCSR) flip-flop with SOA-based Polarization Rotation Switch (PRS) has also been reported. PRS exploits the non-linear Cross Polarization Modulation (XpolM) phenomenon of Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOA). The circuits are polarization encoded. Different performance-related metrics [Q-factor, Extinction Ratio (ER), Contrast Ratio (CR), and Bit Error Rate (BER)] have been calculated and their variations with the input data rate have been studied. The circuit's performance has been analyzed at a very high data rate (~ 333 Gb/s) and provides an average value of Q-factor of ~ 14 dB, ER of ~ 8 dB, and CR of ~ 8 dB. SOA-based designs are compact, less power-consuming, and suitable for modern optical ICs.

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    A. Raja & J. N. Roy

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  3. Centre for Organic Spintronics and Optoelectronics Devices (COSOD), Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal, 713340, India

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Raja, A., Mukherjee, K. & Roy, J.N. Design of dual semiconductor optical amplifier structure based all-optical standard quaternary inverter and quaternary clocked SR flip-flop. Opt Quant Electron 54, 39 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-021-03409-6

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