Photonic logic by linear unidirectional interference

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4251-4256

  Ginzburg, Pavel ^a   Hayat, Alex ^a   Vishnyakov, Victoria ^a   Orenstein, Meir ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; QUANTUM THEORY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DINGER EQUATION; FULL-VECTORIAL BEAM PROPAGATION; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; NOVEL CONCEPT; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; OPTICAL LOGIC; PHOTONIC LOGIC; STRONG FIELD;

COMPUTER CIRCUITS;

EID: 62549090551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.004251     Document Type: Article

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