All-Optical Switching Device Using Plasmonic Mach-Zehnder Interferometer Structure
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Lokendra Singh
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Brajesh Kumar Kaushik
Abstract
The basic logic gates play a key role in performing the mathematical computation. The plasmonics has the uniqueness of confining surface plasmons beyond the diffraction limit. Plasmonic-based Mach-Zehnder interferometer with an extinction ratio of 26 dB is proposed to design the structure of all-optical XOR and XNOR logic gate. A theoretical analysis of proposed gate is carried out using finite-difference-time-domain method and MATLAB simulation results.
Funding statement: Authors would like to acknowledge to Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India for Teachers Associateship for Research Excellence (TARE) grant (TAR/2018/000051).
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- Performance Limits of FSO Based SAC-OCDMA System Under Weather Conditions
- Performance Appraisal of Sigma Delta Modulated Radio over Fiber System
- Behavior study of EDEU optical code for FE-OCDMA system
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