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We are presenting and analyzing a graphene-based nanophotonic device to operate as a resonator-add/drop filter, whose control is obtained by varying the graphene chemical potential. That device consists of graphene-based waveguides, two directional couplers and a racetrack resonator with 90° bends. Since the graphene chemical potential provides the achievement of the necessary parameters, the resonance and filtering of the signals are obtained by applying the correct value of the graphene chemical potential in the graphene nanoribbons. The results of this study should help in the development of new graphene-based nanophotonic devices operating in the terahertz and infrared range (including in the C-band of the International Telecommunication Union – ITU), for use in future communications networks.

Fiber-based devices for operation in fully optical networks are relatively large in size and can not be used in photonic integrated circuits (PICs). We have developed an efficient graphene-based nanophotonic switching nanocell, working in linear regime (cross state) and in non-linear regime (bar state) with relatively low optical power, so that they can be cascaded and integrated in PICs. Indeed, that device is a fully optical switch, which can work in dense wavelength division multiplexing systems.

In this paper a numerical study of an all-optical logical gate based in a symmetric nonlinear directional coupler (NLDC) operating with two ultrashort fundamental soliton pulses of 2ps, modulated by PAM-ASK with binary amplitude modulation to represent the logical level 1 and 0, is presented. The performance of a symmetric dual core NLDC performing two-input logical functions is examined. Initially, we evaluate the effect resulting from an increment in the PAM coding parameter offset (ϵ), considering the anomalous Group Velocity Dispersion (GVD), nonlinear Self Phase Modulation (SPM) in a lossless configuration. We can conclude that is possible to get logical operations for the cores 1 or 2 since a phase control exists which is applied to the input pulse in fiber 1.

We present a nanophotonic/nanometric switching cell to operate in the infrared and terahertz frequency range of telecommunications. This switching cell is based on a directional coupler made of two graphene nanoribbons separated in the vertical direction, which are embedded in a hexagonal boron nitride substrate. Theoretical analysis revealed that a graphene based nanophotonics coupler, initially working in the bar state (or cross state), can be brought into the cross state (or bar state), by modifying the graphene sheet chemical potential via the gate voltage. The analytical results are confirmed by the finite element method simulations and numerical analysis scripts.