All-optical NAND gate using integrated SOA-based Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Optical Fiber Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 312-316

  Ye, Xiaohua ^a   Ye, Peida ^a   Zhang, Min ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

All optical; NAND gate; SOA based MZI; Switching window

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; LOGIC GATES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DEVICES; PROBES; SWITCHING;

MACH ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; NAND GATES; SOA BASED MZI; SWITCHING WINDOWS;

NAND CIRCUITS;

EID: 33748434060     PISSN: 10685200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yofte.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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