• 文献标题:   Numerical investigation of an electro-optic majority voting circuit utilizing graphene-silicon nitride waveguides
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WU WX, ZHANG J, LI Y, CHEN WW, WANG PJ, LI SQ, DING J, ZHANG BH, LU H, LI J, FU Q, DAI TG, WANG YH, YANG JY
  • 作者关键词:   electrooptic majority voting circuit, graphene, silicon nitride waveguide
  • 出版物名称:   OPTIK
  • ISSN:   0030-4026
  • 通讯作者地址:   Ningbo Univ
  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.ijleo.2019.04.075
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

In this paper, an electro-optic majority voting circuit based on graphene-silicon nitride wave guides is proposed and numerically investigated. The proposed circuit is composed of 2 x 1 multimode interference combiners and Mach-Zehnder interferometers where graphene-silicon nitride waveguides are designed for phase shifters. By adjusting graphene's chemical potential electrically, the proposed graphene-silicon nitride waveguide has a large variation in the real part of the effective refractive index so that a relatively compact and low-energy-consumption majority voting circuit can be realized. Simulation results show that as graphene's chemical potential is increased from 0.50 to 0.60 eV at an operating wavelength of 1550 nm, the designed graphene-silicon nitride waveguide with a 5 nm spacer of TiO2 can have 0.34 pJ/bit energy consumption and V-pi center dot L-pi of 43.15 V.mu m.The corresponding electro-optic majority voting circuit has an extinction ratio larger than 20.11 dB.