Title :
All-optical half adder using two cascaded UNI gates
Author :
Kehayas, E. ; Tsiokos, D. ; Vrysokinos, K. ; Stampoulidis, L. ; Kanellos, G.T. ; Bintjas, C. ; Guekos, G. ; Avramopoulos, H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece
Abstract :
We present a novel all-optical half-adder using only two semiconductor interferometric gates. The first gate simultaneously performs logical AND/OR Boolean operations and the second outputs SUM and CARRY bits of 10 Gb/s pseudorandom data patterns.
Keywords :
Boolean algebra; high-speed optical techniques; light interferometers; nonlinear optics; optical communication equipment; optical information processing; optical logic; optical switches; 10 Gbit/s; CARRY bits; SUM bits; all-optical half adder; cascaded UNI gates; logical AND/OR Boolean operations; pseudorandom data patterns; semiconductor interferometric gates; ultrafast nonlinear interferometer gate; Adders; Circuits; Communication switching; Nonlinear optics; Optical devices; Optical interconnections; Optical interferometry; Optical signal processing; Optical switches; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7888-1
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2003.1251719
