scholarly journals Rapidly reconfigurable all-optical universal logic gates

Author(s):  
Lynford L. Goddard ◽  
Jeffrey S. Kallman ◽  
Tiziana C. Bond
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (03) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaurav Kumar Bharti ◽  
Jayanta Kumar Rakshit ◽  
Madan Pal Singh ◽  
Preecha Yupapin

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-43
Author(s):  
Saif Al-Tameemi ◽  
Mohammed Nadhim Abbas

Though photonics displays an attractive solution to the speed limitation of electronics, decreasing the size of photonic devices is one of the major problems with implementing  photonic integrated circuits that are regarded the challenges to produce all-optical computers. Plasmonic can solve these problems, it be a potential solution to fill the gaps in the electronics (large bandwidth and ultra-high speed) and photonics (diffraction limit due to miniaturization size). In this paper, Nano-rings Insulator-Metal-Insulator (IMI) plasmonic waveguides has been used to propose, design, simulate, and perform all-optical universal logic gates (NOR and NAND gates). By using Finite Element Method (FEM), the structure of the proposed plasmonic universal logic gates are designed and numerically simulated by two dimensions (2-D) structure. Silver and Glass materials were chosen to construct proposed structure. The function of the proposed plasmonic NOR and NAND logic gates was achieved by destructive and constructive interferences principle. The performance of the proposed device is measured by three criteria; the transmission, extension ratio, and modulation depth. Numerical simulations show that a transmission threshold (0.3) which allows achieving the proposed plasmonic universal logic gates in one structure at 1550 nm operating wavelength. The properties of this devise was as follows: The transmission exceeds 100% in one state of NAND gate, medium values of Extension Ratio, very high MD values, and very small foot print. In the future, this device will be the access to the nanophotonic integrated circuits and it has regarded fundamental building blocks for all-optical computers.  


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-380
Author(s):  
K. Maji ◽  
K. Mukherjee ◽  
A. Raja

All optical tri-state frequency encoded logic gates NOT and NAND are proposed and numerically investigated using TOAD based interferometric switch for the first time to the best of our knowledge. The optical power spectrum, extinction ratio, contrast ration, and amplified spontaneous noise are calculated to analyze and confirm practical feasibility of the gates. The proposed device works for low switching energy and has high contrast and extinction ratio as indicated in this work.


2005 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. 435 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Bogoni ◽  
L. Potì ◽  
R. Proietti ◽  
G. Meloni ◽  
F. Ponzini ◽  
...  

Photonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 250
Author(s):  
Vakhtang Jandieri ◽  
Ramaz Khomeriki ◽  
Tornike Onoprishvili ◽  
Daniel Erni ◽  
Levan Chotorlishvili ◽  
...  

This review paper summarizes our previous findings regarding propagation characteristics of band-gap temporal solitons in photonic crystal waveguides with Kerr-type nonlinearity and a realization of functional and easily scalable all-optical NOT, AND and NAND logic gates. The proposed structure consists of a planar air-hole type photonic crystal in crystalline silicon as the nonlinear background material. A main advantage of proposing the gap-soliton as a signal carrier is that, by operating in the true time-domain, the temporal soliton maintains a stable pulse envelope during each logical operation. Hence, multiple concatenated all-optical logic gates can be easily realized paving the way to multiple-input ultrafast full-optical digital signal processing. In the suggested setup, due to the gap-soliton features, there is no need to amplify the output signal after each operation which can be directly used as a new input signal for another logical operation. The efficiency of the proposed logic gates as well as their scalability is validated using our original rigorous theoretical formalism confirmed by full-wave computational electromagnetics.


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