All-optical logic and operation at 80 Gb/s using semiconductor optical amplifier based on the Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1672-1675

  Dong, H ^a   Sun, H ^a   Wang, Q ^a   Dutta, N K ^a   Jaques, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

All optical logic; Mach Zehnder Interferometer; Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

Indexed keywords

ALL OPTICAL LOGIC; HIGHER DATA RATES; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; PHASE RECOVERY; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA);

DATA REDUCTION; EQUATIONS OF STATE; INTERFEROMETERS; LOGIC GATES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33745868405     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.21708     Document Type: Article

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