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Fibre-optic metadevice for all-optical signal modulation based on coherent absorption
- Source :
- Nature Communications 9, 182 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Recently, coherent control of the optical response of thin films of matter in standing waves has attracted considerable attention, ranging from applications in excitation-selective spectroscopy and nonlinear optics to demonstrations of all-optical image processing. Here we show that integration of metamaterial and optical fibre technologies allows the use of coherently controlled absorption in a fully fiberized and packaged switching metadevice. With this metadevice, that controls light with light in a nanoscale plasmonic metamaterial film on an optical fibre tip, we provide proof-of-principle demonstrations of logical functions XOR, NOT and AND that are performed within a coherent fully fiberized network at wavelengths between 1530 nm and 1565 nm. The metadevice performance has been tested with optical signals equivalent to a bitrate of up to 40 Gbit/s and sub-milliwatt power levels. Since coherent absorption can operate at the single photon level and also with 100 THz bandwidth, we argue that the demonstrated all-optical switch concept has potential applications in coherent and quantum information networks.<br />Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures
- Subjects :
- Physics - Optics
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- Nature Communications 9, 182 (2018)
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1709.05357
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02434-y