Based on photonic crystal ring resonators and nonlinear Kerr effect in this paper, we proposed a 2*4 all optical decoder switch. Our proposed structure has two logic input ports and one bias input port. This decoder switch has four output ports. Via these two logic input ports, we control the bias signal to transfer toward which output port. We employed numerical methods such as plane wave expansion and finite difference time domain methods for analyzing the proposed structure.

A 2*4 all optical decoder switch based on photonic crystal ring resonators

In this paper, we proposed a novel all optical analog-to-digital (ADC) converter based on photonic crystals. First of all, we designed a three port nonlinear demultiplexer, for producing discrete levels of input optical intensity. Then, an optical coder was used to generate a 2-bit standard binary code out of the discrete levels coming from the nonlinear demultiplexer. The final structure was realized by combining the nonlinear demultiplexer with the optical coder. The maximum sampling rate of the proposed structure obtained to be about 200 GS/s, and the total footprint is about 806 μm2.

A Novel Proposal for All Optical Analog-to-Digital Converter Based on Photonic Crystal Structures

A novel design for realizing all optical analog to digital converter will be proposed in this paper. The proposed structure consists of two main parts; a nonlinear 3-channel demultiplexer, followed by an optical coder. The nonlinear demultiplexer will be used to quantize the input analog signal according to its optical intensity and the coder will convert the quantized levels into 2-bit binary codes. The nonlinear demultiplexer will be realized using three nonlinear resonant cavities. At appropriate values of input signal optical intensity one of the cavities can drop the optical beam to its corresponding output port. The proposed structure is capable of supporting maximum sampling rate up to 52 GS/s and total footprint of the structure is about 924 µm2.

All optical 2-bit analog to digital converter using photonic crystal based cavities

In this study, an all optical 4-to-2 encoder have been proposed which has four input and three output ports. The proposed structure can generate a 2-bit binary code considering which input port is active. For realising the proposed structure first the authors proposed and designed a BUFFER and an OR gate. Then combined these basic gates to realise the proposed encoder. The maximum switching delay and footprint for the proposed structure are about 200 fs and 880 μm2, respectively.

https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1049/iet-opt.2016.0022

Proposal for 4-to-2 optical encoder based on photonic crystals

The present study was designed and simulated for an all optical half-adder, based on 2D photonic crystals. The proposed structure in this work contains a hexagonal lattice. The main advantages of the proposed designation can be highlighted as its small sizing as well as simplicity. Furthermore, the other improvement of this half-adder can be regarded as providing proper distinct space in output between "0" and "1" as logical states. This improvement reduces the error in the identification of logical states (i.e., 0 and 1) at output. Because of the high photonic band gap for transverse electric (TE) polarization, the TE mode calculations are done to analyze the defected lines of light. The logical values of "0" and "1" were defined according to the amount of electrical field.

Hamed Alipour-Banaei

Papers

A 2*4 all optical decoder switch based on photonic crystal ring resonators

A Novel Proposal for All Optical Analog-to-Digital Converter Based on Photonic Crystal Structures

All optical 2-bit analog to digital converter using photonic crystal based cavities

Proposal for 4-to-2 optical encoder based on photonic crystals

All optical NOR and NAND gate based on nonlinear photonic crystal ring resonators