All-optical clocked delay flip-flop using a single terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer-based switch: A theoretical study

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 28, 2010, Pages 5226-5235

  Chattopadhyay, Tanay ^a  

^a The West Bengal Power Development Corporation Limited   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; DEMULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

ALL OPTICAL; ALL-OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHES; FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS; INTERFEROMETRIC SWITCHES; NEXT GENERATION COMMUNICATION NETWORK; TERAHERTZ OPTICAL ASYMMETRIC DEMULTIPLEXERS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS;

EID: 77957557401     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.005226     Document Type: Article

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