Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Fibre-optic metadevice for all-optical signal modulation based on coherent absorption

  • Angelos Xomalis,
  • Iosif Demirtzioglou,
  • Eric Plum,
  • Yongmin Jung,
  • Venkatram Nalla,
  • Cosimo Lacava,
  • Kevin F. MacDonald,
  • Periklis Petropoulos,
  • David J. Richardson,
  • Nikolay I. Zheludev

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02434-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Here, the authors show that integration of metamaterial and optical fibre technologies enables all-optical XOR, NOT and AND logical functions that are performed at up to 40 gigabits per second with few femtojoules per bit energy consumption within a coherent fully fiberized network.