A novel proposal for all optical 3 to 8 decoder based on nonlinear ring resonators

ABSTRACT

In this paper, a 3 to 8 optical decoder was proposed using nonlinear photonic crystal ring resonators. For realizing the 3 to 8 decoder, we combined seven 1 to 2 optical decoders. In the proposed structure, X, Y and Z serve as input ports. By combination of these ports, one can control which output port to be ON. The maximum time delay of the proposed structure is about 6 ps.

KEYWORDS:

• Optical decoder
• photonic crystal
• Kerr effect
• ring resonator

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

Hamed Alipour-Banaei http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0146-1450