An All-Optical 4-Bit Adder Composed of Fabry-Perot Devices

Abstract

This work models an all-optical 4-bit adder comprised of Fabry-Perot devices. Each device is composed of 2 silver mirrors on either side of a cavity made of a nonlinear Kerr material. These devices are optically bistable and suitable for fast logic operations on the order of picoseconds. An amplifying buffer is used between devices to adjust the transmitted signal’s amplitude to the desired value, and to provide control for logic operations. This work uses the method of finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) in one-dimensional (1D) space to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed idea.doctoral, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering -- University of Idaho - College of Graduate Studies, 2023-0