Analytical and simulative studies on optical NOR and controlled NOR logic gates with semiconductor optical amplifier

Abstract

Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) is used for different successful frequency based switching operations. In this paper the authors describe the simulation study of the performances of SOA in various optical switches like frequency conversion, add-drop multiplexer and frequency encoded optical NOR gate, which is one the most important gates in logic family as it is known as one of the universal logic gates. Again, the controlled optical NOR logic operation with semiconductor optical amplifier is also proposed in this paper.