[摘要]：Based on electro-optic Pockels effect of periodically poled lithium niobate, different polarization-based binary all-optical logic functions: controlled-NOT, XOR, and XNOR gates were demonstrated by altering the linear polarization state of input optical signal about 90 degrees on the polarization plant. Because the depletion of signal intensity in polarization-based logic gates is smaller than that of digital logic signal in intensity-based logic gates and almost negligible, this scheme has potential application in realizing complex logic functions by cascading several basic gates. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3656000]
