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- Title
Digital signal processing in coupled photonic crystal waveguides and its application to an all-optical AND logic gate.
- Authors
Jandieri, Vakhtang; Onoprishvili, Tornike; Khomeriki, Ramaz; Erni, Daniel; Pistora, Jaromir
- Abstract
The realization of all-optical AND logic gates for pulsed signal operation based on the photonic bandgap transmission phenomenon is proposed. We are using realistic planar air-hole type coupled photonic crystal waveguides (C-PCWs) with Kerr-type nonlinear background medium. The novelty of our analysis is that the proposed AND logic gate operates with the temporal solitons, which maintain a stable envelope propagating in the nonlinear C-PCWs, enabling true ultrafast full-optical digital signal processing in the time-domain. The bandgap transmission takes place when the operating frequency is chosen at the very edge of the dispersion curve of one of the supermodes in the C-PCWs. In this regard, our original fast and accurate method is used to efficiently calculate the supermodes of the C-PCW system. The underlying semi-analytical full-wave modal analysis is based on the evaluation of the lattice sums for complex wavenumbers using the transition-matrix method in combination with the generalized reflection-matrix approach. As a proof of concept successful pulse operation of the all-optical AND logic gate is demonstrated in the framework of extensive full-wave finite-difference time-domain electromagnetics analysis.
- Subjects
DIGITAL signal processing; LOGIC circuits; PHOTONIC crystals; WAVEGUIDES; PLANAR waveguides; MODAL analysis
- Publication
Optical & Quantum Electronics, 2019, Vol 51, Issue 4, pN.PAG
- ISSN
0306-8919
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11082-019-1833-9