Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 10, Issue 6, 415(2014)

Design of XOR/XNOR optical logic circuit with two cascaded microring resonators and U-bend waveguides

Xin ZHANG*... Zhi-quan LI and Kai TONG |Show fewer author(s)
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  • School of Electronic Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
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    An XOR/XNOR optical logic circuit with two cascaded microring resonators and two U-bend waveguides is proposed. The microring resonators are made of electro-optical polymer and modulated through linear electro-optical effect. Two electrical signals are applied to the two microrings, and simultaneous XOR and XNOR operations are demonstrated in two different operating modes. We also use scattering matrix method to analyze the analog output spectra, and find that different inputs like ‘00’ and ‘11’ can lead to different extinction ratios in output spectra at certain wavelengths, even though their digital outputs are the same.

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    ZHANG Xin, LI Zhi-quan, TONG Kai. Design of XOR/XNOR optical logic circuit with two cascaded microring resonators and U-bend waveguides[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2014, 10(6): 415

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    Received: Jul. 9, 2014

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Oct. 12, 2017

    The Author Email: Xin ZHANG (owen88zjnbzhx@126.com)

    DOI:10.1007/s11801-014-4131-6

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