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New structure for an all-optical logic gate based on hybrid plasmonic square-shaped nanoring resonators and strips

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Seven all-optical logic gates based on hybrid plasmonic squared-shaped nanoring resonators and strips are proposed, designed, and numerically analyzed using finite element method with COMSOL software package version 5.5. Constructive and destructive interferences between the input port(s) and the control port(s) are the main operating principles used to produce the proposed gates. The ratio of output optical power to the input power at a single port which is called the transmission threshold is selected to be 30% and the resonance wavelength is 1310 nm. All the hybrid plasmonic logic gates are performed in a single structure of 400 nm × 400 nm dimensions and the performance is measured according to the values of transmission at the output port versus a wavelength range from 800 to 2000 nm, contrast ratio, modulation depth, and insertion loss. The transmission exceeds 100% in five gates, 146% at NOT and NAND gates, 202.3% at OR, AND, and XNOR gates. The modulation depth scores are 99.75% at the XNOR gate, 98.5% at the NOR gate, 97.67% at OR, AND, NOT, and NAND gates, and 95.29% for the XOR gate.

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    Saif H. Abdulwahid & Sinan M. Abdul Sattar

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    Ahmed Ghanim Wadday

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Abdulwahid, S.H., Wadday, A.G. & Sattar, S.M.A. New structure for an all-optical logic gate based on hybrid plasmonic square-shaped nanoring resonators and strips. Opt Quant Electron 54, 607 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-022-04018-7

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