An all-optical architecture of serial to parallel converter by using Kerr type of non-linear material

Abstract

Optics is a strong and potential candidate in the field of both communication and data processing because of its several inherent advantages. In digital communication the conversion of serial to parallel and parallel to serial data is very much essential for adopting some special modulation. In this communication the authors propose a new concept of developing an all-optical converter which converts a serial data to parallel one. For this purpose the authors use several optical logic gates specifically AND,