Optical AND/OR gates based on monolithically integrated vertical cavity laser with depleted optical thyristor structure

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 11833-11838

  Choi, Woon Kyung ^a   Kim, Doo Gun ^a   Kim, Do Gyun ^a   Choi, Young Wan ^a   Choquette, Kent D ^b   Lee, Seok ^c   Woo, Deok Ha ^c  

^a Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; LIGHT REFLECTION; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD ELEMENTS; THYRISTORS;

MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION; OPTICAL LOGIC GATES; SWITCHING VOLTAGE; THRESHOLD CURRENT;

LOGIC GATES;

EID: 34248646290     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.011833     Document Type: Article

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