Abstract

All-optical implementations of signal processing have attracted a great deal of attention due to the unique potential of this approach to overcome the bandwidth and speed bottleneck of electronic devices. Many all-optical signal processing techniques, offering processing bandwidths up to several THz, have been proposed and successfully employed in a wide range of areas, such as ultrafast telecommunications, optical computing, microwave photonics and bio-photonics etc.

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