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Quasi-light Storage for Optical Data Packets
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Optical logic inverter and AND elements using laser or light-emitting diodes and photodetectors in a bistable system
Optics Letters
|September 2, 2009
Abstract:
Fundamental optical digital data-processing functions of optical inverter and optical AND elements are proposed and demonstrated experimentally for the first reported time using light-emitting diodes and a photodetector in a hybrid optoelectronic bistable system. The inherent simplicity of these bistable optical devices that use either a laser or a light-emitting diode should make it possible to realize these optical logic functions by monolithic optoelectronic integration. Specific integration schemes are also proposed, and future interesting and useful applications are discussed.
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