All-optical logic xor gate at 80 Gb/s using SOA-MZI-DI

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 747-751

  Sun, Hongzhi ^a   Wang, Qiang ^b   Dong, Hao ^a   Chen, Zhe ^a   Dutta, Niloy K ^a   Jaques, James ^c   Piccirilli, A B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Delayed interferometer (DI); Mach Zehnder interferometer (MZI); Photonic logic; Polarization maintaining loop (PML); Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

DELAYED INTERFEROMETER (DI); MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER (MZI); PHOTONIC LOGIC; POLARIZATION MAINTAINING LOOP (PML) MIRROR; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA);

LOGIC GATES;

EID: 33745929068     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2006.878184     Document Type: Article

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