All-optical AND gate by use of a Kerr nonlinear microresonator structure

Optics Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 444-446

  Pereira, Suresh ^a   Chak, Philip ^a   Sipe, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL RESONATORS; RESONANCE;

MICRORESONATORS;

LOGIC GATES;

EID: 0037937259     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.28.000444     Document Type: Article

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