• Frontiers of Optoelectronics
  • Vol. 9, Issue 4, 578 (2016)
Ashkan PASHAMEHR1, Mahdi ZAVVARI1、*, and Hamed ALIPOUR-BANAEI2
Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Electrical Engineering, Urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran
  • 2Department of Electrical Engineering, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
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    DOI: 10.1007/s12200-016-0513-7 Cite this Article
    Ashkan PASHAMEHR, Mahdi ZAVVARI, Hamed ALIPOUR-BANAEI. All-optical AND/OR/NOT logic gates based on photonic crystal ring resonators[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2016, 9(4): 578 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Photonic crystal based ring resonators are best choice for designing all-optical devices. In this paper, we used a basic structure of photonic crystal ring resonators and designed all optical logic gates which are working using the Kerr effect. The proposed gates consisted of upper and lower waveguides coupled through a resonator which was designed for dropping of special wavelength. The resonance wavelength was designed for 1550 nm telecom operation wavelength. We used numerical methods such as plane wave expansion and finite difference time domain (FDTD) for performing our simulations and studied the optical properties of the proposed structures. Our results showed that the critical input power for triggering the gate output was lower compared to previously reported gates.
    Ashkan PASHAMEHR, Mahdi ZAVVARI, Hamed ALIPOUR-BANAEI. All-optical AND/OR/NOT logic gates based on photonic crystal ring resonators[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2016, 9(4): 578
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