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An All-Optical 2-Bit Adder Composed of Fabry-Perot Devices
2023 IEEE Workshop on Microelectronics and Electron Devices (WMED) (2023)
  • Jennifer Ellaine Houle, University of Idaho
  • Dennis Sullivan, University of Idaho
  • Ata Zadehgol, University of Idaho
  • Mark G. Kuzyk, Washington State University
Abstract
This work models an all-optical 2-bit adder comprised of Fabry-Perot devices. Each device is composed of 2 silver mirrors on either side of a cavity made of a nonlinear Kerr material. These devices are optically bistable and suitable for fast logic operations on the order of picoseconds. We propose to use an amplifying buffer between devices to adjust the transmitted signal’s amplitude to the desired value, and to provide control for logic operations. We use the method of finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) in one-dimensional (1D) space to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed idea.
Keywords
  • FDTD,
  • optical logic
Publication Date
2023
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
ISBN
979-8-3503-3645-0
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/WMED58543.2023.10097433
Citation Information
Jennifer Ellaine Houle, Dennis Sullivan, Ata Zadehgol and Mark G. Kuzyk. "An All-Optical 2-Bit Adder Composed of Fabry-Perot Devices" Piscataway, NJ2023 IEEE Workshop on Microelectronics and Electron Devices (WMED) (2023)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jennifer-houle/1/