All-optical XOR logic gates: Technologies and experiment demonstrations

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Zhang, Min ^a   Wang, Ling ^a   Ye, Peida ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMULTIPLEXING; FOUR WAVE MIXING; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

CROSS GAIN MODULATION; CROSS POLARIZATION MODULATION; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; OPTICAL LOGIC GATES; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; TETRAHERTZ OPTICAL ASYMMETRIC DEMULTIPLEXER; USER NETWORK INTERFACE;

LOGIC GATES;

EID: 20344408287     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2005.1453421     Document Type: Review

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