High-speed all-optical and gate using nonlinear transmission of electroabsorption modulator

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 472-474

  Awad, Ehab S ^a,b   Cho, P ^a,b   Goldhar, Julius ^a,b  

^a LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

AND gate; Electroabsorption modulator; Non linear transmission; Optical logic

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LOGIC GATES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL TESTING; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

COUNTERPROPAGATING DATA STREAMS; ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATOR; NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL AND GATE; OPTICAL LOGIC;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0035335515     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.920755     Document Type: Article

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