10-Gb/s All-Optical Half-Adder with Interferometric SOA Gates

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 284-286

  Tsiokos, D ^a   Kehayas, E ^a   Vyrsokinos, K ^a   Houbavlis, T ^a   Stampoulidis, L ^a   Kanellos, G T ^a   Pleros, N ^a   Guekos, G ^b   Avramopoulos, H ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Half adder; High speed optical logic; Optical gate; Optical signal processing; Ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (UNI)

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE MODULATION; POLARIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSISTORS;

OPTICAL GATES; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR INTERFEROMETERS (UNI);

ADDERS;

EID: 0346076646     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.819394     Document Type: Article

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