Title :
Directed optical half-adder based on microring-resonator-based optical switches
Author :
Tian, Yonghui ; Yang, Lin ; Zhang, Lei ; Ji, Ruiqiang ; Ding, Jianfeng ; Zhou, Ping ; Zhu, Weiwei ; Lu, Yangyang
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. on Integrated Optoelectron. & Optoelectron. Syst. Lab., Inst. of Semicond., Beijing, China
Abstract :
We fabricate a directed optical logic circuit on silicon-on-insulator platform which can implement the addition of two bits. For proof of concept, a thermo-optic switch effect is employed with an operation speed of 10kbps.
Keywords :
adders; optical logic; optical switches; silicon-on-insulator; thermo-optical devices; Si; bit rate 10 kbit/s; directed optical half-adder; directed optical logic circuit; microring-resonator-based optical switches; silicon-on-insulator platform; thermo-optic switch effect; Optical device fabrication; Optical pulses; Optical refraction; Optical resonators; Optical switches; Optical variables control; Optimized production technology;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
