8 March 2016 Design and analysis of various multifunctional operations at ultrahigh speed by using a semiconductor optical amplifier-Mach–Zehnder interferometer
Lovkesh Gupta Bahtia, Anupma Marwaha
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Abstract
Various multifunctional operations are performed by proposing designs of optical adder, subtractor, comparator, and decoder at 60  Gb/s. In all operations, constructive interference is produced by choosing optimized parameters, i.e., optical pulse generator power, input power, semiconductor optical amplifier-Mach–Zehnder interferometer parameters, and so on, for delivering a true output signal. An optical pulse-generated signal is required for all operations except addition, subtraction and equal to in a comparator.
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Lovkesh Gupta Bahtia and Anupma Marwaha "Design and analysis of various multifunctional operations at ultrahigh speed by using a semiconductor optical amplifier-Mach–Zehnder interferometer," Optical Engineering 55(3), 033101 (8 March 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.55.3.033101
Published: 8 March 2016
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KEYWORDS
Logic

Eye

Interferometers

Optical amplifiers

Optical engineering

Phase shifts

Optical semiconductors

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