Performance analysis of ultrafast all-optical Boolean XOR gate using semiconductor optical amplifier-based Mach-Zehnder Interferometer

Optics Communications

Volumn 232, Issue 1-6, 2004, Pages 179-199

  Houbavlis, T ^a   Zoiros, K E ^b   Kanellos, G ^a   Tsekrekos, C ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

All optical Boolean XOR logic; All optical signal processing; All optical switching; Optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) networks; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); SOA based Mach Zehnder Interferometer (SOA MZI)

Indexed keywords

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SWITCHING; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OTDM) NETWORKS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (SOA);

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 1042265794     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2003.12.062     Document Type: Article

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