Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Control of randomly scattered surface plasmon polaritons for multiple-input and multiple-output plasmonic switching devices

  • Wonjun Choi,
  • Yonghyeon Jo,
  • Joonmo Ahn,
  • Eunsung Seo,
  • Q-Han Park,
  • Young Min Jhon,
  • Wonshik Choi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14636
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Losses of bandwidth are inevitable when interfacing between optical and electronic components. Here the authors present a switching device consisting of a two-dimensional disordered array of nanoholes that can potentially transfer information about 40 times faster than conventional switching devices.