All-optical logic NOR gate using two-cascaded semiconductor optical amplifiers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1439-1441

  Hamié, Ali ^a   Sharaiha, Ammar ^a   Guégan, Mikael ^a   Pucel, Benoît ^a  

^a Ecole Nationale d'Ingenieurs de Brest   (France)

Author keywords

Counterpropagating operation; Optical communication; Optical logic devices; Semiconductor optical amplifiers

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; LOGIC GATES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHASE MODULATION;

OPTICAL LOGIC DEVICES; TWO-CASCADED SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0036772262     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.802426     Document Type: Article

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