GB2386728B - All-optical gate - Google Patents

All-optical gate

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Publication number
GB2386728B
GB2386728B GB0206807A GB0206807A GB2386728B GB 2386728 B GB2386728 B GB 2386728B GB 0206807 A GB0206807 A GB 0206807A GB 0206807 A GB0206807 A GB 0206807A GB 2386728 B GB2386728 B GB 2386728B
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optical gate
gate
optical
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GB0206807A
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GB2386728A (en
Inventor
Robert John Manning
Roderick Peter Webb
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Corning Inc
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Corning Inc
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
    • G02F3/00—Optical logic elements; Optical bistable devices
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06E—OPTICAL COMPUTING DEVICES; COMPUTING DEVICES USING OTHER RADIATIONS WITH SIMILAR PROPERTIES
    • G06E1/00—Devices for processing exclusively digital data
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
    • G02F1/00—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics
    • G02F1/01—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour 
    • G02F1/21—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour  by interference
    • G02F1/225—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour  by interference in an optical waveguide structure
    • G02F1/2257—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour  by interference in an optical waveguide structure the optical waveguides being made of semiconducting material
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
    • G02F2203/00—Function characteristic
    • G02F2203/70—Semiconductor optical amplifier [SOA] used in a device covered by G02F
GB0206807A 2002-03-22 2002-03-22 All-optical gate Expired - Fee Related GB2386728B (en)

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GB0206807D0 GB0206807D0 (en) 2002-05-01
GB2386728A GB2386728A (en) 2003-09-24
GB2386728B true GB2386728B (en) 2006-08-23

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JPS60263926A (en) * 1984-06-12 1985-12-27 Omron Tateisi Electronics Co Optical exor circuit
US5315422A (en) * 1992-02-28 1994-05-24 Kokusai Denshin Denwa Kabushiki Kaisha Optical Mach-Zehnder type logic element which performs an XOR operation
GB2335102A (en) * 1997-05-19 1999-09-08 Northern Telecom Ltd Optical logic devices and methods
JP2000162658A (en) * 1998-11-25 2000-06-16 Toyo Commun Equip Co Ltd Optical logic circuit
EP1174759A1 (en) * 2000-07-14 2002-01-23 Lucent Technologies Inc. Optical boolean logic devices

Patent Citations (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
JPS60263926A (en) * 1984-06-12 1985-12-27 Omron Tateisi Electronics Co Optical exor circuit
US5315422A (en) * 1992-02-28 1994-05-24 Kokusai Denshin Denwa Kabushiki Kaisha Optical Mach-Zehnder type logic element which performs an XOR operation
GB2335102A (en) * 1997-05-19 1999-09-08 Northern Telecom Ltd Optical logic devices and methods
JP2000162658A (en) * 1998-11-25 2000-06-16 Toyo Commun Equip Co Ltd Optical logic circuit
EP1174759A1 (en) * 2000-07-14 2002-01-23 Lucent Technologies Inc. Optical boolean logic devices

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