Title :
All-optical logic controlled-NOT, AND, and OR gates employing electro-optic effect in PPLN
Author :
Yuping Chen ; Yvbin Tang ; Haowei Jiang ; Xianfeng Chen
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
By employing electro-optic Pockels effect of periodically poled lithium niobate, two optical signals with orthogonal linear polarization states can be switched between each other, which is a novel mechanism to demonstrate polarization-based binary all-optical logic functions, such as the basic controlled-NOT, AND and OR gates. By exploiting these basic gates with other XOR and XNOR gates realized in our previous experiment, complicated Boolean calculation should be expected.
Keywords :
Pockels effect; lithium compounds; niobium compounds; optical logic; AND gate; Boolean calculation; LiNbO3; XNOR gate; XOR gate; all-optical logic controlled-NOT gate; electro-optic Pockels effect; optical signals; orthogonal linear polarization states; periodically poled lithium niobate; polarization-based binary all-optical logic functions; Optical logic gates; lithium niobate; optoelectronics;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2012 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chonburi
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4957-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4958-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICOCN.2012.6486230
