Simple novel all-optical half-adder

Optical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Chen, Zhixin ^a  

^a CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

All optical half adder; Optical communications; Sagnac interferometric structure; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer

Indexed keywords

80 GBIT/S; ALL OPTICAL AND GATE; ALL-OPTICAL; ALL-OPTICAL XOR GATE; CARRIER RECOVERY TIME; CRUCIAL PARAMETERS; HALF-ADDER; OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; OPERATION SPEED; SAGNAC INTERFEROMETRIC STRUCTURE; TERAHERTZ OPTICAL ASYMMETRIC DEMULTIPLEXERS; ULTRA-FAST;

CARRY LOGIC; DEMULTIPLEXING; INTERFEROMETRY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 77950677013     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3366669     Document Type: Article

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