Reconfigurable Optical Directed-Logic Circuits Using Microresonator-Based Optical Switches (Postprint)

Abstract

We present a reconfigurable optical directed logic architecture that offers several significant improvements over the original directed logic presented by Hardy and Shamir. Specific embodiments of on-chip, waveguided, large-scale-integrated, cellular optical directed logic fabrics are proposed and analyzed. Five important logic functions are presented as examples to show that the same switch fabric can be reconfigured to perform different logic functions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA571050

Entities

People

  • Qianfan Xu
  • Richard Soref

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Cellular Structures
  • Circuits
  • Computers
  • Diagrams
  • Energy Consumption
  • Large Scale Integration
  • Logic
  • Logic Devices
  • Logic Gates
  • Modulation
  • Modulators
  • Networks
  • Optical Waveguides
  • Semiconductors
  • Xor Gates

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.