All-optical passive transistor using counter-propagating beams in a nonlinear Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Fiber and Integrated Optics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 268-274

  Medhekar, S ^a   Paltani, Punya Prasanna ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

All optical communication; All optical logic; Nonlinear optical devices; Optical computing

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; ALL-OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; ALL-OPTICAL DEVICE; ALL-OPTICAL LOGIC; AMPLIFIER NOISE; COUNTER-PROPAGATING BEAM; NAND GATE; NONLINEAR MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL COMPUTING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; INTERFEROMETRY; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHOTONICS; TRANSISTORS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70449559005     PISSN: 01468030     EISSN: 10964681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01468030902759307     Document Type: Article

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