All-optical AND gate by use of a Kerr nonlinear microresonator structure.
- 15 March 2003
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 28 (6) , 444-446
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.28.000444
Abstract
We numerically demonstrate the feasibility of constructing an all-optical AND gate by using a microresonator structure with Kerr nonlinearity. The gate is much smaller than similar AND gates based on Bragg gratings and has lower power requirements.Keywords
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