Optical Four-Wave Mixing in Laser Diodes for Logic Operations

摘要

The primary objective of this research has been to investigate optical logicoperation; 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.