High-performance all-optical or/nor logic gate in a single semiconductor optical amplifier with delay interference filtering

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 2638-2641

  Feng, Yanming ^a   Zhao, Xiaofan ^a   Wang, Li ^a   Lou, Caiyun ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LOGIC GATES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

ALL-OPTICAL LOGIC GATES; DELAY INTERFEROMETER; EXTINCTION RATIOS; EYE DIAGRAMS; HIGH QUALITY; LOGIC FUNCTIONS; OPTICAL BANDPASS FILTERS; TUNABLE FILTERS;

COMPUTER CIRCUITS;

EID: 67649264297     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.002638     Document Type: Article

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