Generation of logic gates based on a photonic crystal fiber Michelson interferometer

Abstract

We present a numerical investigation of all-optical logical gates based in a Michelson interferometer (MI) of micro structured fibers, also known as photonic crystal fibers (PCF). We considered an ultra-short pulse propagating along the system in three distinct regimes of pump power. We determine several relevant quantities to characterize the system performance such as transmission, extinction ratio and crosstalk as a function of the dephasing added to one of the Bragg gratings of the Michelson interferometer (MI). High-order effects, such as third-order dispersion, intrapulse Raman scattering and self-steepening were included in the nonlinear generalized Schrödinger equation governing the pulse propagation. Our results show that the proposed device can be used to obtain all-optical XOR, OR and NOT logic gates.