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All-optical binary half-adder

Alistair James Poustie, +3 more
- 01 Nov 1998 - 
- Vol. 156, Iss: 1, pp 22-26
TLDR
An all-optical binary half-adder which simultaneously generates the bit-serial SUM and CARRY bits from two binary modulated input pulse trains and can implement the XOR function of the two input data streams is demonstrated.
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This article is published in Optics Communications.The article was published on 1998-11-01. It has received 83 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Adder & Binary number.

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All-optical XOR gate using semiconductor optical amplifiers without additional input beam

TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-gain modulation of semiconductor optical amplifiers has been proposed and demonstrated successfully at 10 Gb/s for all-optical XOR gates.
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Integrated all-optical logic and arithmetic operations with the help of a TOAD-based interferometer device--alternative approach

TL;DR: A TOAD-based tree architecture is proposed, a new and alternative scheme, for integrated all-optical logic and arithmetic operations in the optical interconnecting network.
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Design and analysis of all-optical XOR gate using SOA-based Mach–Zehnder interferometer

TL;DR: In this article, the performance of ultra-fast all-optical XOR gate using two types semiconductor optical amplifier-based Mach-Zehnder interferometers (SOA-MZIs) is analyzed.
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Single-PPLN-based simultaneous half-adder, half-subtracter, and OR logic gate: proposal and simulation

TL;DR: This work proposes and simulates all-optical simultaneous half-adder, half-subtracter, and OR logic gate at 40 Gbit/s based on the cascaded sum-and difference-frequency generation (SFG+DFG) using only one periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) waveguide.
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All-optical half adder using semiconductor optical amplifier based devices

TL;DR: In this article, an all-optical half adder using semiconductor optical amplifier based devices is suggested and demonstrated at 10 Gbit/s, where Boolean AB and AB are obtained and combined to achieve logic SUM.
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Semiconductor laser amplifiers for ultrafast all-optical signal processing

TL;DR: In this article, the role of SLA carrier dynamics, which permits switching rates faster than the recovery time, has been highlighted for all-optical ultrafast signal processing, and experimental results imply that switching rates of as much as ∼100 GHz should be possible.
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Ultrafast all-optical logic operations in a nonlinear Sagnac interferometer with two control beams.

Masahiko Jinno, +1 more
- 15 Feb 1991 - 
TL;DR: Ultrafast highly stable all-optical logic operations, including inversion, AND, Xor, and XOR, in a two-wavelength nonlinear Sagnac interferometer with two control beams have been reported.
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All-optical bit pattern generation and matching

TL;DR: This is the first demonstration of an all-optical code matching circuit using an optical loop memory as a high rate pattern generator, which could be used for address recognition in ultra-high speed time division multiplexed systems.
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40 Gbit/s all-optical demultiplexing using a monolithically integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer with semiconductor laser amplifiers

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate all-optical error-free demultiplexing of 10, 20 and 40 Gbit/s data signals by using a monolithically integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer with two semiconductor laser amplifiers.
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All-optical switch for TDM and WDM/TDM systems demonstrated in a 640 Gbit/s demultiplexing experiment

TL;DR: In this paper, a novel interferometric switch is presented that exhibits high linearity, high switching contrast, low noise, wide bandwidth and low crosstalk, which is based on refractive index modulation in a wavelength band far from the gain region of a semiconductor-optical amplifier.
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