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Design of transmission gate using electro-optic effect of lithium niobate based Mach–Zehnder interferometers

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Optical integrated circuits for computing and information processing could overcome the speed limitations of semiconductor electronics. However, in photonics, very few fundamental building blocks equivalent to those used in multi-functional electronic circuits exist. In this paper, transmission gate based on electro-optic effect inside lithium niobate based Mach–Zehnder interferometers (MZI) is described. Transmission gates are typically used as building blocks for logic circuitry in integrated circuit design. It is a combination of NMOS and PMOS transistors. Lithium niobate based MZI has a phenomenal competence to switching optical signal to a desired output port. Here, proposed device is elucidated with the help of mathematical description and thereafter simulation using MATLAB. 2 \(\times \) 1 multiplexer is also designed using proposed transmission gate. The study is verified using beam propagation method.

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This work is supported by the project entitled “Performance study of some WDM optical network components and design of optical switching devices” under the Faculty Research Scheme, DIT University, Dehradun, India (Ref. No.: DITU/R&D/2014/7/ECE) undertaken by Dr. Santosh Kumar. The authors would like to thanks to Prof. K. K. Raina, Vice-chancellor of DIT University for motivation and support during research work.

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  1. Photonics Lab, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, DIT University, Dehradun, 248009, India

    Chanderkanta Chauhan & Santosh Kumar

  2. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Manipur, Imphal, 795004, India

    Ashish Ranjan

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Chauhan, C., Ranjan, A. & Kumar, S. Design of transmission gate using electro-optic effect of lithium niobate based Mach–Zehnder interferometers. Photon Netw Commun 34, 271–279 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11107-017-0694-z

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