Position-sensing detector for logical operations using incoherent light

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2005, Pages

  Vikram, Chandra S ^a   Caulfield, H John ^a  

^a FISK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basic optical gates; Incoherent optical logic; Position sensing detector

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; LOGIC DESIGN; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES;

INCOHERENT OPTICAL LOGIC; OPTICAL GATES; POSITION-SENSING DETECTOR;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33747599420     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2128255     Document Type: Article

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