Abstract

Reversible logic gates are capable of designing lossless digital systems, which have received a great deal of attention in photonic integrated circuits due to their advantages, such as less heat generation and low power dissipation. In this paper, all-optical reversible Feynman and Toffoli logic gates are designed for optical computing devices and low-power integrated circuits. Proposed designs of all-optical reversible logic gates are implemented with two-dimensional photonic crystal waveguides without using any nonlinear material. The finite-difference time-domain method is used to simulate and verify the proposed design, and it is operated at a wavelength of 1550 nm. The structure of all-optical reversible logic gates requires much less area, and Feynman logic gates offer a contrast ratio (CR) of 12.4 dB, transmittance of 0.96, and less insertion loss of ${-}{0.015}\;{\rm dB}$, while Toffoli logic gates offer a CR of 32.5 dB, transmittance of 0.9, and less insertion loss of ${-}{0.04}\;{\rm dB}$.

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