Demonstration of optoelectronic logic operations with differential pairs of optical thyristors

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 467-469

  Kirk, A G ^a   Thienpont, H ^a,c   Goulet, A ^a   Heremans, P ^b,c   Borghs, G ^b   Vounckx, R ^a   Kuijk, M ^a,c   Veretennicoff, I ^a,c  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

^c IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; LOGIC DEVICES; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; THYRISTORS;

ALUMINUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; ELEMENT TO ELEMENT DATA TRANSCRIPTION; OPTICAL THYRISTORS; OPTOELECTRONIC LOGIC ELEMENTS;

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

EID: 0030107585     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.481152     Document Type: Article

References (6)

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5. H. Thienpont, A. Kirk, I. Veretennicoff, P. Heremans, G. Borghs, M. Kuijk, and R. Vounckx, "Demonstrator circuitry for optical data transcription and digital optical logic based on differential pairs of optical thyristors," in Optical Computing '95, Tech. Dig., 1995, pp. 154-156.
6. H. Thienpont, A. Kirk, I. Veretennicoff, P. Heremans, B. Knupfer, G. Borghs, M. Kuijk, and R. Vounckx, "Optical thyristor based subsystems for digital parallel processing: Demonstrators and future perspectives," in Proc. 2nd IEEE Conf. Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnect., 1995, pp. 228-238.