Ultrafast all-optical NOR gate based on semiconductor optical amplifier and fiber delay interferometer

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 10708-10714

  Xu, Jing ^a   Zhang, Xinliang ^a   Liu, Deming ^a   Huang, Dexiu ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; PHASE SHIFT; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

FIBER DELAY INTERFEROMETER (FDI); OPTICAL LOGIC NOR GATES; OPTICAL POWER; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (SOA);

LOGIC GATES;

EID: 33750715399     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.010708     Document Type: Article

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