All-optical XOR and XNOR operations at 86.4 Gb/s using a pair of semiconductor optical amplifier mach-zehnder interferometers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 19062-19066

  Kang, I ^a   Rasras, M ^a   Buhl, L ^a   Dinu, M ^a   Cabot, S ^b   Cappuzzo, M ^a   Gomez, L T ^a   Chen, Y F ^a   Patel, S S ^a   Dutta, N ^b   Piccirilli, A ^b   Jaques, J ^b   Giles, C R ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b LGS Innovations   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

ALL OPTICAL; INTEGRATED SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 70350307230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.019062     Document Type: Article

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