Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
849777 Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics 2014 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

All optical multivalued logic processors are of paramount importance in optical computing and signal processing. In this article the author proposes a method of developing all-optical quaternary Inversion, NOT and Bitswap logic gates, which are essential parts of quaternary arithmetic and logical processors. Nonlinear switching and add/drop multiplexing (ADM) properties of semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) are exploited here to develop the frequency encoded quaternary logic gates.

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