• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.421-424
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• 2002

By using SOA (Semiconductor Optical Amplifier) based devices, an all-optical half adder has been successfully demonstrated at 10 Gb/s. All-optical XOR and AND gates are utilized to realize SUM and CARRY. Since SUM and CARRY have been simultaneously realized to form the all-optical half adder, complex calculation and signal processing can be achieved.