Reconfigurable electro-optical logic gates using a 2-layer multilayer perceptron.

ABSTRACT

In this work, we aim to use the optical amplifiers, directional couplers and phase modulators to build the electro-optical gates. Thanks to the 2-layer-multilayer-perceptron structure, the inversion of matrix is performed to obtain the coupling ratio of the directional couplers and the phase delay of the phase modulators. The electro-optical OR, AND, XOR, NAND, NOR and XNOR gates are demonstrated. Moreover, we not only study the results under the ideal condition of device, but also discuss the imperfect situation with 1% error of fabrication or operation to study the tolerance of this system. Through our simulation results, the visibility of the gate output can be higher than 0.83. The gates can be fabricated in a silicon-based chip to develop the integrated optics computing system.