A theoretical study of all optical clocked D flip flop using single micro-ring resonator

Journal of Computational Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 278-286

  Rakshit, Jayanta Kumar ^a   Roy, Jitendra Nath ^a   Chattopadhyay, Tanay ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

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

Author keywords

Micro ring resonator; Optical D flip flop; Optical logic; Optical signal processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894671271     PISSN: 15698025     EISSN: 15728137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10825-013-0519-y     Document Type: Article

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