Ultrafast pattern-operated all-optical Boolean XOR with semiconductor optical amplifer-assisted Sagnac switch

Optical Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3415-3416

  Houbavlis, T ^a   Zoiros, K E ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CLOCKS; FORMAL LOGIC; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PACKET SWITCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

BIT PATTERN SWITCHING; DATA PULSES; INCOMING CLOCK; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; SWITCHED OUT PULSES;

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS;

EID: 1642275422     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1624851     Document Type: Article

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