
doi: 10.5772/34037
Optical components that permit the miniaturization of photonic integrated circuits to a scale comparable to the wavelength of light are good candidates for future optical network and optical computing. All-optical communication is one of the solution for the electronic bottleneck viz speed and size, thanks to their ability to process the information at the speed of light. Optical logic gates are the fundamental components in optical digital information processing. In recent years, researchers have demonstrated all-optical logic gates using different schemes based on nonlinear effects in optical fibers (Ahn et al., 1997; Bogoni et al., 2005; Menezes et al., 2007), in semiconductor devices (Kyoung Sun Choi et al., 2010; Kim et al., 2002; Zhihong Li & Guifang Li 2006; Dorren et al., 2004; Stubkjaer, 2000) and in waveguides (Tetsuro Yabu et al., 2002; Yaw-Dong Wu, 2005; Yaw-Dong Wu et al., 2008). But most of the reported works suffer from certain fundamental limitations including big size, low speed and difficult to perform chip-scale integration.
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