Controlling light with light using coherent metadevices: all-optical transistor, summator and invertor

Xu Fang; Kevin F MacDonald; Nikolay I Zheludev

doi:10.1038/lsa.2015.65

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Controlling light with light using coherent metadevices: all-optical transistor, summator and invertor

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- Controlling light with light using coherent metadevices: all-optical transistor, summator and invertor
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 4, Issue 2, (2015)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Optoelectronics Research Centre & Centre for Photonic Metamaterials, University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
  2.Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, TPI, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore
- Author bio：
  
  KF MacDonald, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton Hampshire SO17 1BJ, UK Email: kfm@orc.soton.ac.uk
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2015.65
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- Published：2015-06，
  
  Published Online：16 February 2015，
  
  Received：12 September 2014，
  
  Revised：11 February 2015，
  
  Accepted：14 February 2015
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Fang, X., MacDonald K. F. & Zheludev, N. I. Controlling light with light using coherent metadevices: all-optical transistor, summator and invertor. Light: Science & Applications, 4, e292 (2015).
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Fang, X., MacDonald K. F. & Zheludev, N. I. Controlling light with light using coherent metadevices: all-optical transistor, summator and invertor. Light: Science & Applications, 4, e292 (2015). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2015.65.

摘要

Abstract

Although vast amounts of information are conveyed by photons in optical fibers

the majority of data processing is performed electronically

creating the infamous 'information bottleneck' and consuming energy at an increasingly unsustainable rate. The potential for photonic devices to directly manipulate light remains unfulfilled due largely to a lack of materials with strong

fast optical nonlinearities. In this paper

we show that small-signal amplifier

summator and invertor functions for optical signals may be realized using a four-port device that exploits the coherent interaction of beams on a planar plasmonic metamaterial

assuming no intrinsic nonlinearity. The redistribution of energy among ports can provide nonlinear input-output signal dependencies and may be coherently controlled at very low intensity levels

with multi-THz bandwidth and without introducing signal distortion

thereby presenting powerful opportunities for novel optical data processing architectures

complexity oracles and the locally coherent networks that are becoming part of the mainstream telecommunications agenda.

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Keywords

all-optical data processingcoherent controlphotonic metamaterials

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