• 文献标题:   Electro-optical logic gates based on graphene-silicon waveguides
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CHEN WW, YANG LZ, WANG PJ, ZHANG YW, ZHOU LQ, YANG TJ, WANG Y, YANG JY
  • 作者关键词:   integrated optic, optical device, waveguide
  • 出版物名称:   OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS
  • ISSN:   0030-4018 EI 1873-0310
  • 通讯作者地址:   Ningbo Univ
  • 被引频次:   12
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.optcom.2016.04.008
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

In this paper, designs of electro-optical AND/NAND, OR/ NOR, XOR/XNOR logic gates based on cascaded silicon graphene switches and regular 2 x 1 multimode interference combiners are presented. Each switch consists of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer in which silicon slot waveguides embedded with graphene flakes are designed for phase shifters. High-speed switching function is achieved by applying an electrical signal to tune the Fermi levels of graphene flakes causing the variation of modal effective index. Calculation results show the crosstalk in the proposed optical switch is lower than -22.9 dB within a bandwidth from 1510 nm to 1600 nm. The designed six electro-optical logic gates with the operation speed of 10 Gbit/s have a minimum extinction ratio of 35.6 dB and a maximum insertion loss of 0.21 dB for transverse electric modes at 1.55 pm. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.