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Design of programmable logic device based on electro-optic effect of lithium-niobate-based Mach–Zehnder interferometers

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Programmable logic device (PLD) gives flexibility to implement different combinational circuits in a single device as per the requirement. In this paper, design of an optical PLD is proposed using electro-optic effect of lithium-niobate-based Mach–Zehnder interferometers (MZIs). Lithium-niobate-based MZI have spectacular ability to couple an optical input signal to a desired output port. The paper constitutes several examples of combinational logic circuits implemented with proposed device, its mathematical description and thereafter simulation using MATLAB. The study is verified using beam propagation method.

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Acknowledgments

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 thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions.

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

    Chanderkanta & Santosh Kumar

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, 632014, India

    Neha Singh

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Chanderkanta, Singh, N. & Kumar, S. Design of programmable logic device based on electro-optic effect of lithium-niobate-based Mach–Zehnder interferometers. Photon Netw Commun 33, 356–370 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11107-016-0650-3

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