On the design of ultrafast all-optical NOT gate using quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifier-based MachZehnder interferometer

Optics and Laser Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 600-607

  Dimitriadou, E ^a   Zoiros, K E ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

All optical Boolean NOT logic; MachZehnder interferometer; Quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifier

Indexed keywords

160 GB/S; ALL-OPTICAL; COMPLEMENTARY OUTPUT; CRITICAL PARAMETER; ELECTRON RELAXATION TIME; EXTINCTION RATIOS; GAIN DYNAMICS; HIGH QUALITY; INPUT POWER; LINEAR GAIN; LOGICAL CORRECTNESS; MACH-ZEHNDER; MODAL GAIN; NET GAIN; NON-LINEAR REGIMES; NOT GATE; NUMERICAL TREATMENTS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PEAK POWER; POWER EFFICIENT; QUANTUM DOT SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; SIMULATION RESULT; ULTRA-FAST;

EXCITED STATES; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 80455143819     PISSN: 00303992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2011.08.028     Document Type: Article

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