Simulation and demonstration of directed XOR logic gate using two cascaded microring resonators

IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics GFP

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 213-215

  Zhang, Lei ^a   Ji, Ruiqiang ^a   Jia, Lianxi ^a   Yang, Lin ^a   Zhou, Ping ^a   Tian, Yonghui ^a   Chen, Ping ^a   Lu, Yangyang ^a   Jiang, Zhenyu ^a   Liu, Yuliang ^a   Fang, Qing ^b   Yu, Mingbin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Integrated optics devices; Microring resonator; Optical logic devices; Silicon photonics

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTICS DEVICES; LOGIC ARCHITECTURE; LOGICAL OPERATIONS; MICRORING RESONATOR; MODULATING SIGNALS; OPTICAL LOGIC DEVICE; SILICON MICRORING RESONATORS; SILICON PHOTONICS; XOR LOGIC GATES; XOR OPERATION;

INTEGRATED OPTICS; LOGIC GATES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTONIC DEVICES;

PHOTONICS;

EID: 78651374356     PISSN: 19492081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GROUP4.2010.5643377     Document Type: Conference Paper

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