All-optical half-adder using all-optical XOR and AND gates for optical generation of sum and carry

Fiber and Integrated Optics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 254-271

  Menezes, J W M ^a,b   Fraga, W B ^a,c   Ferreira, A C ^a   Guimaraes G F ^a   Filho, A F G F ^a   Sobrinho, C S ^a   Sombra, A S B ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO FEDERAL DE EDUCAÇÃO   (Brazil)

^c Campus Sobral   (Brazil)

Author keywords

non linear coupler; optical half adder

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; BINARY COUNTERS; BUILDING BLOCKES; COMPRESSION FACTOR; CONTROL PULSE; DIGITAL PROCESSING; EXTINCTION RATIOS; HALF-ADDER; INTEGRATED OPTICAL CIRCUIT; LOGIC FUNCTIONS; NON-LINEAR; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION STUDIES; OPTICAL COUPLER; OPTICAL FIBER TELECOMMUNICATION; OPTICAL GENERATION; PARALLEL DATA; PHASE DIFFERENCE; SHORT LIGHT PULSE; SWITCHING SPEED; SYMMETRICAL STRUCTURE;

CARRY LOGIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SHIFT REGISTERS;

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

EID: 77954682735     PISSN: 01468030     EISSN: 10964681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01468030.2010.485290     Document Type: Article

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