ArticleAuthors: Le, Duy Tien; Le, Trung Thanh; Cahill, Laurence W. (2018)
All-optical logic gates have attracted considerable attention over the past decade. They have found application as adders, subtractors, header recognizers, parity checkers and in encryption systems. In this paper, we present a new structure based on cascaded 4×4 and 2×2 multimode interference (MMI) couplers for implementing optical XOR, XNOR, NAND and OR logic gates. The emphasis of the design is on optimising bandwidth and fabrication tolerance. Such a design would be useful for optical label swapping and recognition in optical packet switching networks. We use silicon on insulator (SOI) waveguides that are compatible with the CMOS technology, for designing the whole device. The Beam...