Title :
Directed optical half-adder based on microring-resonator-based optical switches
Author :
Yonghui Tian ; Lin Yang ; Lei Zhang ; Ruiqiang Ji ; Jianfeng Ding ; Ping Zhou ; Weiwei Zhu ; Yangyang Lu
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; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; micro-optics; optical logic; optical resonators; 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; thermo-optic switch effect;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2012 Asia
Conference_Location :
Guangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6274-0
