Integrated all-optical logic and arithmetic operations with the help of a TOAD-based interferometer device-alternative approach

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 5304-5310

  Roy, Jitendra Nath ^a   Gayen, Dilip Kumar ^a  

^a PO: KTPP Township   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

OPTICAL TREE ARCHITECTURE (OTA); PHOTONIC ACTIVITY; TERAHERTZ OPTICAL ASYMMETRIC DEMULTIPLEXER (TOAD);

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 35448933990     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.005304     Document Type: Article

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