Low Input Power an All Optical 4×2 Encoder based on Triangular Lattice Shape Photonic Crystal

An all optical encoder based triangular lattice shape photonic crystal (PC) is proposed. The device is composed of two ring resonator waveguides and two OR gate with four input ports waveguides and two output ports waveguides in triangular lattice shape PC. The band diagram of base PC structure calculated by plane wave expansion (PWE) method. Also, transmission and distribution of electrical field behaviors of the proposed device are verified by two dimensional finite difference time domain (2D-FDTD) method. The proposed 4×2 encoder can operate at third communication window range, considering definitions of logic 0 and 1 being the normalized transmission as less than 3% and greater than 95% respectively. Despite the nonlinear encoders, in our case, due to the non-use of non-linear effects such as Kerr effect, low input power required for encoder. © 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 2018.