Electro-optic directed logic circuit based on microring resonators for XOR/XNOR operations

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 11605-11614

  Zhang, Lei ^a   Ding, Jianfeng ^a   Tian, Yonghui ^a   Ji, Ruiqiang ^a   Yang, Lin ^a   Chen, Hongtao ^a   Zhou, Ping ^a   Lu, Yangyang ^a   Zhu, Weiwei ^a   Min, Rui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOGIC CIRCUITS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

CARRIER INJECTION; FABRICATION ERRORS; MICRO-HEATERS; MICRORING RESONATOR; MODULATING SIGNALS; PIN DIODE; PLASMA DISPERSION EFFECTS; RESONANCE WAVELENGTHS; THERMOOPTIC EFFECTS;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; MINIATURIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84861494411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.011605     Document Type: Article

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