Simulant designing of an ultra-compact AND, OR logical gates based on two-dimensional photonic crystal waveguides

Abstract

In this paper, we employed optical waveguides in a silicon rod base structure to realize AND, OR logical operation simultaneously based on two-dimensional photonic crystals. All of the structure is composed of silicon rods. Employing silicon rods of different radii as defect rods in optical waveguide filtered the desired wavelength. We utilized two similar waveguides as our input bits and two waveguides as AND and OR outputs. The overall footprint of the proposed device is 60 μm2 and hence is very compact. The time responses of device are about 0.5 ps and hence in conjunction with the mentioned characteristics suggest the use of the device for computational applications. The electric field distribution is obtained by the finite-difference time-domain method. In this paper, the logic state of ‘1’ and ‘0’ at output port is defined as the transmission is around ‘1’ and less than 0.25, respectively. The compact size of the proposed structure and the materials used make the proposed device suitable for optical integrated circuits.