What can we do with a linear optical logic gate?

Information Sciences

Volumn 176, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 3379-3392

  Qian, Lei ^a   Caulfield, H John ^a  

^a FISK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservative logic; Interferometer; Optical logic; Reversible logic

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERFEROMETERS; LOGIC GATES;

CONSERVATIVE LOGIC; LOGICAL BOOLEAN VALUES; OPTICAL LOGIC; REVERSIBLE LOGIC;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33747803608     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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