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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2010
Applicant:
Inuk Kang, Freehold, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Inuk Kang, Freehold, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An all-optical modulation format converter for converting optical data signals modulated in an on-off-keying (OOK) format to a phase-shift-keying (PSK) format. The OOK-to-PSK converter can be coupled to a delay-line interferometer to provide an all-optical wavelength converter for differential PSK (DPSK). The OOK-to-PSK converter can also be used in all-optical implementations of various functions, including, for example, exclusive-OR (XOR/NXOR) and OR logic, shift registers, and pseudo-random binary sequence (PRBS) generators. Several variants of all-optical devices are described.