in this paper a novel all-optical logic nand, nor and xor gate based on nonlinear directional coupler theory is demonstrated. we use the identical structure which contains three waveguides, for designing these gates; the only difference however, is the power of inputs light beam. in other words, while a beam with 4 w/μm in power considered as logical one, the output is nand gate and if a beam w...

Background and Objectives: Recently, photonic crystals have been considered as the basic structures for the realization of various optical devices for high speed optical communication. Methods: In this research, two dimensional photonic crystals are used for designing all optical logic gates. A photonic crystal structure with a triangular lattice is proposed for making NAND, XNOR, and OR optica...

In recent past, reversible logic is emerged as a promising computing paradigm with applications in low-power CMOS, quantum computing, optical computing and nanotechnology. Optical logic gates become potential component to work at macroscopic (light pulses carry information), or quantum (single photon carries information) levels with high efficiency. In this paper, we propose a novel scheme of T...