Ultrahigh-speed reconfigurable logic gates based on four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1341-1343

  Li, Zhihong ^a,b   Li, Guifang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

All optical signal processing; Four wave mixing (FWM); Logic gate; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; LOGIC GATES; POLARIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALL-OPTICAL LOGIC OPERATIONS; ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; LOGIC FUNCTIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; ULTRAHIGH-SPEED RECONFIGURABLE;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33745153744     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.877008     Document Type: Article

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