Achieving stabilization in interferometric logic operations

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 360-365

  Zavalin, Andrey I ^a   Shamir, Joseph ^a,b   Vikram, Chandra S ^a   Caulfield, H John ^a  

^a FISK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; FORMAL LOGIC; LOGIC GATES; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; POLARIZATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

AMPLITUDE BEAM SPLITTERS; BOOLEAN OPERATORS; DEVICE CONFIGURATION;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 31344435919     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.000360     Document Type: Article

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