Title :
All-optical half-adder based on a hydrogenated amorphous silicon microring resonator
Author :
Dusan Gostimirovic;Winnie N. Ye
Author_Institution :
Department of Electronics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
fDate :
6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We demonstrate the working principle of a silicon-based all-optical half-adder using AND-XOR Boolean logic. Ultrafast switching speeds are achieved by applying the Kerr effect to hydrogenated amorphous silicon microring resonators.
Keywords :
"Optical resonators","Refractive index","Amorphous silicon","Optical switches","Nonlinear optics","Optical refraction","Optical variables control"
Conference_Titel :
Photonics North, 2015
DOI :
10.1109/PN.2015.7292538
