DocumentCode
399927
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
Volume
1
fYear
2003
fDate
27-28 Oct. 2003
Firstpage
228
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
ISSN
1092-8081
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7888-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/LEOS.2003.1251719
Filename
1251719
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