Experimental demonstration of a low-latency fiber soliton logic gate

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1768-1774

  Ahn, Kyu H ^b,e,f   Vaziri, M ^b   Barnett, Brandon C ^b,f,g   Williams, Guy R ^b,f   Cao, X D ^b   Islam, Mohammed N ^{a,b,f,h,i,j,k}   Malo, B ^c   Hill, Kenneth O ^c   Chowdhury, D Q ^d  

^a IEEE

^b University of Michigan   (United States)

^c Industry Canada   (Canada)

^d Res Devmt and Eng Division ^*  (United States)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^g BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^j AccuPhotonics Inc

^k AAAS ^*

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER LASERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LOGIC GATES; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHASE MODULATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CROSS PHASE MODULATION; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; NONLINEAR OPTICAL LOOP MIRROR; OPTICAL LOGIC GATES; SOLITON DRAGGING LOGIC GATE;

SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030212729     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.532013     Document Type: Article

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