Abstract passive interferometers with applications to conservative logic

Optik

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 404-408

  Qian, Lei ^a   Caulfield, H John ^a  

^a FISK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservative logic; Interferometer; Optical logic; Reversible logic

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; FORMAL LOGIC; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; VECTORS;

COMPLEX VECTORS; CONSERVATIVE LOGICS; OPTICAL LOGIC; REVERSIBLE LOGICS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 23044438489     PISSN: 00304026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijleo.2005.02.012     Document Type: Article

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