All-optical AND/NAND logic gates using semiconductor microresonators

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1422-1424

  Ibrahim, Tarek A ^a,b   Grover, R ^a,b   Kuo, L C ^a,b   Kanakaraju, S ^a,b   Calhoun, L C ^a,b   Ho, P T ^a,b  

^a LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

All optical switching; Microresonators; Optical logic; Two photon absorption (TPA)

Indexed keywords

NAND CIRCUITS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; OPTICAL LOGIC; RESONANCE WAVELENGTHS; SEMICONDUCTOR MICRO-RACETRACK RESONATORS; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION;

LOGIC GATES;

EID: 0141987566     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.818049     Document Type: Article

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