Regenerative and reconfigurable all-optical logic gates for ultra-fast applications

Electronics Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 435-436

  Bogoni, A ^a   Poti L ^a   Proietti, R ^b   Meloni, G ^b   Ponzini, F ^b   Ghelfi, P ^a  

^a CNIT Nat'l Laboratory of Photonic Networks   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHODE RAY OSCILLOSCOPES; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MIRRORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE MODULATION; PHASE SHIFT; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CROSS-PHASE MODULATION (XPM); DISPERSION SHIFTED FIBERS (DSF); LOGIC FUNCTIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL LOOP MIRRORS (NOLM);

LOGIC GATES;

EID: 17444431890     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20058010     Document Type: Article

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