Enabling transistor-like action in photonic crystal waveguides using optical event horizons

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. 1372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panagiotis Kanakis ◽  
Thomas Kamalakis
Keyword(s):  
Photonic Crystal ◽  
Photonic Crystal Waveguides ◽  
Event Horizons ◽  
Optical Event

Slow-light Enhanced Nonlinear Optics in Silicon Photonic Crystal Waveguides

PIERS Online ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Moss ◽  
B. Corcoran ◽  
C. Monat ◽  
Christian Grillet ◽  
T. P. White ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Photonic Crystal ◽  
Nonlinear Optics ◽  
Slow Light ◽  
Photonic Crystal Waveguides ◽  
Silicon Photonic

scholarly journals Band-Gap Solitons in Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Waveguides and Their Application for Functional All-Optical Logic Gating

Photonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 250
Author(s):  
Vakhtang Jandieri ◽  
Ramaz Khomeriki ◽  
Tornike Onoprishvili ◽  
Daniel Erni ◽  
Levan Chotorlishvili ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Photonic Crystal ◽  
Band Gap ◽  
Crystalline Silicon ◽  
Logic Gates ◽  
Photonic Crystal Waveguides ◽  
Optical Logic ◽  
Logical Operation ◽  
Pulse Envelope ◽  
Gap Soliton ◽  
All Optical

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.

scholarly journals Effect of hole-shape irregularities on photonic crystal waveguides

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (15) ◽  
pp. 3108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Momchil Minkov ◽  
Vincenzo Savona
Keyword(s):  
Photonic Crystal ◽  
Photonic Crystal Waveguides ◽  
Hole Shape
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