20 Gb/s all-optical XOR with UNI gate

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 834-836

  Bintjas, C ^a   Kalyvas, M ^a   Theophilopoulos, G ^a   Stathopoulos, T ^a   Avramopoulos, H ^a   Occhi, L ^b   Schares, L ^b   Guekos, G ^b   Hansmann, S ^c   Dall'Ara, R ^c  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Opto Speed AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LOGIC GATES; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ALL OPTICAL BOOLEAN XOR; OPTICAL GATE; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR INTERFEROMETER;

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS;

EID: 0034224556     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.853516     Document Type: Article

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