Optical logic OR-AND-NOT and NOR gates in waveguides consisting of nonlinear material

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E83-C, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1755-1760

  Pramono, Yono Hadi ^a   Geshiro, Masahiro ^b   Kitamura, Toshiaki ^b   Sawa, Shinnosuke ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING   (Indonesia)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Finite difference beam propagation method; Nonlinear waveguide; Optical logic

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000162169     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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