Optical Four-Wave Mixing in Laser Diodes for Logic Operations.

Abstract

The primary objective of this research has been to investigate optical logic operation; using nonlinear optical techniques in bulk media as well as in waveguide structures such a; fibers and/or laser diodes. We have been exploring, in general, optical logic gates that can be implemented utilizing spectral parallelism. This spectral parallelism has been demonstrated for various optical computing components. While most of these components demonstrated were, implemented in photorefractive media, the possibility to perform optical logic in optical fibers a well as laser diodes has also been explored.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 14, 1995
Accession Number
ADA301540

Entities

People

  • Pochi Yeh

Organizations

  • University of California, Santa Barbara

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Fibers
  • Fuzzy Logic
  • Image Restoration
  • Information Processing
  • Laser Diodes
  • Lasers
  • Logic
  • Logic Gates
  • Materials
  • Nonlinear Optics
  • Optical Fibers
  • Optical Phenomena
  • Optics
  • Phase Conjugation
  • Photorefractive Materials
  • Semiconductor Lasers
  • Wave Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Engineering
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy