6417-6422 High speed all optical logic gates based on quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 6417-6422

  Ma, Shaozhen ^a   Chen, Zhe ^a   Sun, Hongzhi ^a   Dutta, Niloy K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

ACTIVE LAYER; ALL-OPTICAL; ALL-OPTICAL LOGIC GATES; BOOLEAN LOGIC; BOOLEAN LOGIC OPERATIONS; CARRIER HEATING; CARRIER RELAXATION; LOGIC OPERATIONS; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; QD DEVICES; QUANTUM DOT SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; QUANTUM DOTS; RATE EQUATIONS; SPECTRAL-HOLE BURNING; ULTRA-FAST; WETTING LAYER;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 77950260390     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006417     Document Type: Article

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