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All-optical half adder using carrier reservoir semiconductor optical amplifiers at 120 Gb\(/\)s

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In this paper, carrier reservoir semiconductor optical amplifiers (CR-SOAs) are employed for the first time to design an all-optical (AO) half adder at 120 Gb\(/\)s. The CR-SOAs are incorporated in Mach–Zehnder interferometers (MZIs) configured as XOR and AND gates to execute the required SUM and CARRY logic functions, respectively. The performance of the half adder is evaluated through the quality factor (Q-factor), whose variation against the CR-SOA’s critical operating parameters, including amplified spontaneous emission noise, is theoretically investigated. The simulation results show that MZIs with CR-SOAs can implement an AO half adder running at 120 Gb\(/\)s with a high Q-factor.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship Initiative (Grant code: 2022VMB0013) and the Deanship of Scientific Research at Umm Al-Qura University (Grant code: 22UQU4290253DSR01) for supporting this work.

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  1. GPL, State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130033, China

    Amer Kotb & Wei Li

  2. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Fayoum, Faiyum, 63514, Egypt

    Amer Kotb

  3. Lightwave Communications Research Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, 67100, Xanthi, Greece

    Kyriakos E Zoiros

  4. Department of Physics, Faculty of Applied Science, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, 24382, Saudi Arabia

    Fahad Alhashmi Alamer

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Kotb, A., Zoiros, K.E., Alamer, F.A. et al. All-optical half adder using carrier reservoir semiconductor optical amplifiers at 120 Gb\(/\)s. Pramana - J Phys 96, 154 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-022-02396-x

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