Demonstration of reconfigurable electro-optical logic with silicon photonic integrated circuits

Opt Lett. 2012 Oct 1;37(19):3942-4. doi: 10.1364/OL.37.003942.

Abstract

We demonstrate a scalable and reconfigurable optical directed-logic architecture consisting of a regular array of integrated optical switches based on microring resonators. The switches are controlled by electrical input logic signals through embedded p-i-n junctions. The circuit can be reconfigured to perform any combinational logic operation by thermally tuning the operation modes of the switches. Here we show experimentally a directed logic circuit based on a 2×2 array of switches. The circuit is reconfigured to perform arbitrary two-input logic functions.