Passive all-optical tree architecture-based scheme for conversion of 2n radix-based number to its binary form

Abstract

In this study, a simple but efficient all-optical conversion scheme of 2 n radix-based form to its binary equivalent is proposed and described with the help of passive all-optical tree architecture. The proposed design is more efficient in terms of speed and hardware complexity. Here, the authors describe the different schemes that can perform conversion of any 2 n radixbased number to its binary equivalent such as hexadecimal to binary, ASCII to binary and so on. The model can be extended for studying a more complex all-optical circuit of enhanced functionality in which binary conversion scheme is the basic building block.