Spatial soliton all-optical logic gates

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1287-1289

  Serak, Svetlana V ^a   Tabiryan, Nelson V ^a   Peccianti, Marco ^b   Assanto, Gaetano ^b  

^a BEAM ENGINEERING FOR ADVANCED MEASUREMENTS CO   (United States)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

All optical processing; Angular steering; Light self localization; Liquid crystals; Spatial solitons

Indexed keywords

ISOMERIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LOGIC GATES; SOLITONS; SWITCHING; CRYSTALS;

ALL-OPTICAL LOGIC GATES; ANGULAR STEERING; LIGHT SELF-LOCALIZATION;

OPTICS; SOLITONS;

ALL-OPTICAL; ALL-OPTICAL LOGIC GATES; ALL-OPTICAL PROCESSING; ANGULAR STEERING; EXTERNAL CONTROL; LIGHT LOCALIZATION; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE; NON-LINEARITY; POWER LEVELS; SELF-LOCALIZATION; SPATIAL SOLITONS;

EID: 33846709975     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.875318     Document Type: Article

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