A proposal for two-input arbitrary Boolean logic gates using single semiconductor optical amplifier by picosecond pulse injection

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 7725-7730

  Dong, Jianji ^a,b   Zhang, Xinliang ^a   Huang, Dexiu ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LOGIC GATES; NAND CIRCUITS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ADDITIONAL LOGIC; BOOLEAN LOGIC GATES; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; EXTINCTION RATIOS; GAUSSIAN FILTERS; PICO-SECOND PULSE; RETURN-TO-ZERO FORMATS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

COMPUTER CIRCUITS;

EID: 66449124723     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007725     Document Type: Article

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