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Title: Rapidly reconfigurable all-optical universal logic gate

Abstract

A new reconfigurable cascadable all-optical on-chip device is presented. The gate operates by combining the Vernier effect with a novel effect, the gain-index lever, to help shift the dominant lasing mode from a mode where the laser light is output at one facet to a mode where it is output at the other facet. Since the laser remains above threshold, the speed of the gate for logic operations as well as for reprogramming the function of the gate is primarily limited to the small signal optical modulation speed of the laser, which can be on the order of up to about tens of GHz. The gate can be rapidly and repeatedly reprogrammed to perform any of the basic digital logic operations by using an appropriate analog optical or electrical signal at the gate selection port. Other all-optical functionality includes wavelength conversion, signal duplication, threshold switching, analog to digital conversion, digital to analog conversion, signal routing, and environment sensing. Since each gate can perform different operations, the functionality of such a cascaded circuit grows exponentially.

Inventors:
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Hayward, CA
  2. Livermore, CA
  3. Pleasanton, CA
Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1014692
Patent Number(s):
7791781
Application Number:
U S Patent Application 11/805,115
Assignee:
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, CA)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
G - PHYSICS G02 - OPTICS G02F - DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS, THE OPTICAL OPERATION OF WHICH IS MODIFIED BY CHANGING THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIUM OF THE DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF THE INTENSITY, COLOUR, PHASE, POLARISATION OR DIRECTION OF LIGHT, e.g. SWITCHING, GATING, MODULATING OR DEMODULATING
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-48
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Citation Formats

Goddard, Lynford L, Bond, Tiziana C, and Kallman, Jeffrey S. Rapidly reconfigurable all-optical universal logic gate. United States: N. p., 2010. Web.
Goddard, Lynford L, Bond, Tiziana C, & Kallman, Jeffrey S. Rapidly reconfigurable all-optical universal logic gate. United States.
Goddard, Lynford L, Bond, Tiziana C, and Kallman, Jeffrey S. Tue . "Rapidly reconfigurable all-optical universal logic gate". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1014692.
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