All-Optical XOR in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier-Assisted Fiber Sagnac Gate

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 334-336

  Houbavlis, T ^a   Zoiros, K ^a   Vlachos, K ^a   Papakyriakopoulos, T ^a   Avramopoulos, H ^a   Girardin, F ^b   Guekos, G ^b   Dall'Ara, R ^c   Hansmann, S ^d   Burkhard, H ^d  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Opto Speed AG   (Switzerland)

^d DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

High speed logic; Optical gates; Semiconductor optical amplifiers

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

CONTRAST RATIO; OPTICAL GATES; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (SOA);

LOGIC GATES;

EID: 0033097670     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.748226     Document Type: Article

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