Simultaneous all-optical half-adder and half-subtracter based on two semiconductor optical amplifiers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 91-93

  Dai, Bo ^a   Shimizu, Satoshi ^b   Wang, Xu ^a   Wada, Naoya ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Logic based optical processing; nonlinear optical signal processing; optical signal processing; semiconductor optical amplifiers

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC FUNCTIONS; ASSIST LIGHT; DATA STREAM; EXTINCTION RATIOS; HALF-ADDER; NONLINEAR OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ON-OFF KEYING; OPTICAL PROCESSING; REPETITION RATE; RETURN-TO-ZERO;

NUMBER THEORY; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 84871649596     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2228847     Document Type: Article

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