All-optical binary flip-flop with the help of Terahertz Optical Asymmetric Demultiplexer

Natural Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 903-916

  Maity, Goutam Kumar ^a   Chattopadhyay, Tanay ^b   Gayen, Dilip Kumar ^b   Taraphdar, Chinmoy ^c   Maiti, Anup Kumar ^b   Maity, Santi Prasad ^d   Roy, Jitendra Nath ^b  

^a Calcutta Institute of Technology   (India)

^b PO: KTPP Township   (India)

^c BANKURA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE   (India)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

All optical flip flop; Optical switch; Terahertz Optical Asymmetric Demultiplexer (TOAD)

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE; COMPUTER NETWORK; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA STORAGE DEVICE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 78649909307     PISSN: 15677818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11047-009-9162-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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