Plasmonic waveguides based optical AND gate

Sonia Tomer; Nishant Shankhwar; Yogita Kalra; Ravindra Kumar Sinha

doi:10.1117/12.2273271

25 August 2017 Plasmonic waveguides based optical AND gate

Sonia Tomer, Nishant Shankhwar, Yogita Kalra, Ravindra Kumar Sinha

Proceedings Volume 10346, Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications XV; 103462H (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2273271
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2017, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In this paper, a design of Plasmonic waveguides based optical AND gate has been proposed. Various designs of Photonic crystal based optical logic gates have already been envisioned and proposed during the past decade, in which, wavelength of operation is comparable to the geometrical parameters. On the contrary, the proposed structure consists of Plasmonic waveguides whose thickness is much smaller than the wavelength of operation. Plasmonics can pave way for the development of optical interconnects that are small enough to operate in nanoscale devices. Nowadays, Plasmonics is being implemented in a large number of areas, one of which is confinement of optical power in subwavelength devices. This may pave the way for large scale on-chip integration for the development of all optical circuits for optical computing systems. Moreover, the proposed design is simple and easy to fabricate using techniques like thin-film technology and lithography. This AND gate has been designed and analysed using the Finite Element Method (FEM) software. The proposed structure has been made by using silver material as a waveguide and silicon as the surrounding dielectric..

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Sonia Tomer, Nishant Shankhwar, Yogita Kalra, and Ravindra Kumar Sinha "Plasmonic waveguides based optical AND gate", Proc. SPIE 10346, Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications XV, 103462H (25 August 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2273271

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