Objective
The project addresses the domain of ultra-high speed, serial photonic logic. In particular the proposed work aims to develop the necessary photonic modules that are required to perform digital logic operations at rates exceeding those of equivalent electronic circuits and to demonstrate their use in novel, concrete applications. The core element to achieve digital, all-optical logic in this project is the nonlinear Sagnac interferometer switch, which so far has been used extensively for high speed switching in fibre transmission experiments. So far the Sagnac has been used as a dumb switch in which its logical potential has not been needed and therefore has not been exploited.
The first phase of the project will aim to prove the feasibility of performing high-speed optical serial logic. The expected results will be:
- a set of modules including laser sources, fibre amplifiers, logic gates and shift registers operating up to 10 GHz and capable of Boolean logic when interconnected;
- a system test of the modules by building an all-optical pseudo-random sequence generator operating at 10 GHz;
- a study of target applications where the cost/advantage of the optical logic modules will be significant compared to electronic circuit designs.
In the second phase the project will aim to improve the speed and performance of the logic modules and to expand the domains of their application. The expected results will be:
- an advanced set of logic modules tested for use up to 40 GHz;
- a study of circuit architectures that will take advantage of the optical and logical characteristics of the photonic modules;
- advanced system implementation in two application domains: for bit error rate measurements at 40 Gbps and in an optically addressable 2x2 exchange/bypass switch;
- a laboratory prototype of the logic modules for easy and fast development into products.
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- natural sciences physical sciences optics laser physics
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