Proposed new approach to design all optical AND gate using plasmonic based Mach-Zehnder interferometer for high speed communication

Santosh Kumar; Lokendra Singh

doi:10.1117/12.2227069

19 April 2016 Proposed new approach to design all optical AND gate using plasmonic based Mach-Zehnder interferometer for high speed communication

Santosh Kumar, Lokendra Singh

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Proceedings Volume 9884, Nanophotonics VI; 98842D (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227069
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2016, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

The limitation of conventional electronics is mitigated by all optical integrated circuits which have potential of high speed computing and information processing. In this work, an all optical AND gate using optical Kerr effect and optical bistability of a plasmonic based Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) is proposed. An MZI is capable for switching of light according to the intensities of optical input signal. The paper constitutes with mathematical formulation of device and its study is verified using finite difference time domain (FDTD) method.

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Santosh Kumar and Lokendra Singh "Proposed new approach to design all optical AND gate using plasmonic based Mach-Zehnder interferometer for high speed communication", Proc. SPIE 9884, Nanophotonics VI, 98842D (19 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227069

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