Novel implementation method to realize all-optical logic gates

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1011-1018

  Wang, L A ^a,b,c   Chang, S H ^{a,d,e,f,g,h,i}   Lin, Y F ^a,d,j,k  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^f IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^g I O Sci and Technology Department

^h NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

ⁱ ASME   (China)

^j Acer Inc   (Taiwan)

^k Display R and D Department

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Author keywords

Optical computing; Optical interference; Optical logic gates

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010967438     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601935     Document Type: Article

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