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Photonic Signal Processing for Logic and Computation

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All-Optical Signal Processing

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Photonic signal processing and computing take advantage of the sub-picosecond response time of nonlinear optical phenomena to perform high speed operations either on analog and digital optical signals directly in the optical domain, thus avoiding any electro-optic conversion. This chapter first provides a theoretical explanation of the main nonlinear processes and the key enabling technologies exploited in all-optical signal processing applications. In the last two section of the chapter a description of several schemes, used for signal processing, all-optical logic operation and computation, with the respective experimental characterization, are reported.

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Bogoni, A., Willner, A. (2015). Photonic Signal Processing for Logic and Computation. In: Wabnitz, S., Eggleton, B. (eds) All-Optical Signal Processing. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 194. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14992-9_6

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