All‐optical half adder based on non‐linear triangular lattice photonic crystals with improved contrast ratio

Abstract

Abstract An all‐optical half adder based on two‐dimensional photonic crystals is proposed. The proposed structure is composed of a triangular array of dielectric rods made of non‐linear optical material in air. The structure consists of four waveguides and one ring resonator which are formed by removing a number of dielectric rods. The structure has been simulated and analysed by the plane wave expansion method and the finite‐difference time‐domain method. The size of the proposed structure is small with dimensions of 17 μm × 14.8 μm, and the material of the rods and lattice constant are uniform across the structure. The proposed half adder has a minimum contrast ratio of 13.51 dB in the steady state, with a maximum time delay of 2 ps.

Keywords

• finite difference time‐domain analysis
• optical logic
• photonic crystals
• lattice constants
• optical arrays
• nonlinear optics