All-optical digital logic and and XOR gates using four-wave-mixing in monolithically integrated semiconductor ring lasers

Electronics Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 698-700

  Li, B ^a   Lu, D ^b   Memon, M I ^a   Mezosi, G ^c   Wang, Z ^a   Sorel, M ^c   Yu, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL OPTICAL AND GATE; ALL-OPTICAL; ALL-OPTICAL LOGIC; BOOLEAN EQUATIONS; DIGITAL LOGIC; ERROR FREE OPERATIONS; EXTINCTION RATIOS; MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED; OPTICAL INJECTION LOCKING; SEMICONDUCTOR RING LASERS; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; XOR FUNCTION; XOR GATES;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RING LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 67650091646     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el.2009.0845     Document Type: Article

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