Ultrafast all-optical half adder using quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifier-based mach-zehnder interferometer

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 3387-3393

  Gayen, Dilip Kumar ^a   Bhattachryya, Arunava ^a   Chattopadhyay, Tanay ^b   Roy, Jitendra Nath ^c  

^a Department of Computer Science and Engineering   (India)

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

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

All optical arithmetic operation; all optical half adder; all optical logic gate; Mach Zehnder interferometer; quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifier (QD SOA)

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC OPERATIONS; ALL-OPTICAL LOGIC; ALL-OPTICAL LOGIC GATES; ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS; HIGH-SPEED; INPUT DATAS; Q-FACTORS; QUANTUM DOT SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; SMALL SIGNAL GAIN; ULTRA-FAST; XOR FUNCTION;

DIGITAL STORAGE; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84867856873     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2012.2215579     Document Type: Article

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