Simultaneous all-optical AND and NOR gates for NRZ differential phase-shift-keying signals

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 596-598

  Xu, Jing ^a,b   Zhang, Xinliang ^a   Dong, Jianji ^a   Liu, Deming ^a   Huang, Deming ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Delayed interferometer (DI); Nonreturn to zero differential phase shift keying (NRZ DPSK); Optical logic devices; Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs)

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

DELAYED INTERFEROMETER; NONRETURN-TO-ZERO DIFFERENTIAL PHASE-SHIFT KEYING; OPTICAL LOGIC DEVICES;

LOGIC GATES;

EID: 41849148665     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.918822     Document Type: Article

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