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Soliton all-optical logic AND gate with semiconductor optical amplifier-assisted Mach–Zehnder interferometer

Journal article published 2016-08-23 by SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng presenting a soliton-based all-optical AND gate implemented with a semiconductor optical amplifier-assisted Mach–Zehnder interferometer. No additional details were included in the supplied source fields.

Illustrative image: Schematic of an optical neural network that functions as a logic gate — Chao Qian, Xiao Lin, Xiaobin Lin, Jian Xu, Yang Sun, Erping Li, Baile Zhang and Hongsheng Chen/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

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Documents a technical design for an all-optical logic AND gate using an SOA-assisted Mach–Zehnder interferometer.

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