All-optical method for the addition of binary data by nonlinear materials

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 33, 2004, Pages 6147-6150

  Pahari, Nirmalya ^a   Das, Debendra Nath ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Sourangshu ^a  

^a VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA;

ALL-OPTICAL SYSTEMS; BINARY NUMBERS; NONLINEAR MATERIALS; SWITCHING SCHEMES;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 10444286055     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.006147     Document Type: Article

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