Complete all-optical processing polarizationbased binary logic gates and optical processors

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 9879-9895

  Zaghloul, Y A ^a,b   Zaghloul, A R M ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ITR Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ALL OPTICAL PROCESSING GATES; BINARY GATES; OPTICAL LOGIC ARCHITECTURE; OPTICAL PROCESSORS;

LOGIC GATES;

EID: 33750372405     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.009879     Document Type: Article

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