One-picosecond optical n o r gate at room temperature with a GaAs-AlGaAs multiple-quantum-well nonlinear Fabry–Perot étalon
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 46 (1), 70-72
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.95857
Abstract
The speed of a GaAs-AlGaAs optical logic gate is time resolved using a 100-fs laser system. It shows that the gating operation can be performed in ≂1 ps, the fastest reported for such a low-energy optical device. The lowest incident switching for such a device is ≲3 pJ.Keywords
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