Demonstration of a Directed Optical Comparator Based on Two Cascaded Microring Resonators

Demonstration of a Directed Optical Comparator Based on Two Cascaded Microring Resonators

We propose a directed optical comparator, which is composed of two microring resonators (MRRs) and a 2 × 1 optical combiner. The two MRRs are modulated by two electrical signals, which represent the two binary numbers to be compared. Three optical signals are output by the device, which represent th...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE photonics technology letters 2015-04, Vol.27 (8), p.809-812
Hauptverfasser: Lin Yang, Chunming Guo, Weiwei Zhu, Lei Zhang, Changzheng Sun
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Integrated optics
Logic functions
Optical computing
Optical coupling
Optical device fabrication
Optical reflection
Optical resonators
Optical switches
Optical waveguides
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Zusammenfassung:We propose a directed optical comparator, which is composed of two microring resonators (MRRs) and a 2 × 1 optical combiner. The two MRRs are modulated by two electrical signals, which represent the two binary numbers to be compared. Three optical signals are output by the device, which represent the comparison results. As a proof of concept, a directed optical comparator based on thermo-optic effect is fabricated and the device can perform the comparison function of two binary numbers at the speed of 10 kb/s.
ISSN:1041-1135
1941-0174
DOI:10.1109/LPT.2015.2390618