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Design of One-Bit Magnitude Comparator Using Nonlinear Plasmonic Waveguide

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The effective optical switching property of Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) utilizing optical Kerr effect has been precisely reported suitably assisted with an analytical approach in this paper. MZI plays the role of the fundamental building block in the designing of intricate combinational circuit by employing Kerr effect. This paper constitutes ultra-compact design of one-bit magnitude comparator along with its mathematical analysis. The analysis of device is justified through MATLAB and finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method.

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Acknowledgment

The authors would like to thank Prof. K. K. Raina, Vice-Chancellor, DIT University for encouragement and support during the present research work. The authors would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions.

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  1. Photonics Laboratory, Department of Electronics and Communication, DIT University, Dehradun, India

    Santosh Kumar, Lokendra Singh & Sandip Swarnakar

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Kumar, S., Singh, L. & Swarnakar, S. Design of One-Bit Magnitude Comparator Using Nonlinear Plasmonic Waveguide. Plasmonics 12, 369–375 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-016-0273-7

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