Fibre-optic metadevice for all-optical signal modulation based on coherent absorption
Recently, coherent control of the optical response of thin films in standing waves has attracted considerable attention, ranging from applications in excitation-selective spectroscopy and nonlinear optics to all-optical image processing. Here, we show that integration of metamaterial and optical fib...
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| author | Xomalis, Angelos Demirtzioglou, Iosif Plum, Eric Jung, Yongmin Nalla, Venkatram Lacava, Cosimo MacDonald, Kevin F Petropoulos, Periklis Richardson, David J Zheludev, Nikolay I |
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| description | Recently, coherent control of the optical response of thin films in standing waves has attracted considerable attention, ranging from applications in excitation-selective spectroscopy and nonlinear optics to 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, which 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 fibre network at wavelengths between 1530 and 1565 nm. The metadevice has been tested at up to 40 gigabits per second and sub-milliwatt power levels. Since coherent absorption can operate at the single-photon level and with 100 THz bandwidth, we argue that the demonstrated all-optical switch concept has potential applications in coherent and quantum information networks. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/872072023-02-28T19:32:01Z Fibre-optic metadevice for all-optical signal modulation based on coherent absorption Xomalis, Angelos Demirtzioglou, Iosif Plum, Eric Jung, Yongmin Nalla, Venkatram Lacava, Cosimo MacDonald, Kevin F Petropoulos, Periklis Richardson, David J Zheludev, Nikolay I School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies (CDPT) Fibre Optics And Optical Communications Recently, coherent control of the optical response of thin films in standing waves has attracted considerable attention, ranging from applications in excitation-selective spectroscopy and nonlinear optics to 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, which 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 fibre network at wavelengths between 1530 and 1565 nm. The metadevice has been tested at up to 40 gigabits per second and sub-milliwatt power levels. Since coherent absorption can operate at the single-photon level and with 100 THz bandwidth, we argue that the demonstrated all-optical switch concept has potential applications in coherent and quantum information networks. MOE (Min. of Education, S’pore) Published version 2018-01-26T02:14:05Z 2019-12-06T16:37:14Z 2018-01-26T02:14:05Z 2019-12-06T16:37:14Z 2018 2018 Journal Article Xomalis, A., Demirtzioglou, I., Plum, E., Jung, Y., Nalla, V., Lacava, C., et al. (2018). Fibre-optic metadevice for all-optical signal modulation based on coherent absorption. Nature Communications, 9, 182-. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87207 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44348 10.1038/s41467-017-02434-y 203232 en Nature Communications © 2018 The Author(s). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 7 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Fibre Optics And Optical Communications Xomalis, Angelos Demirtzioglou, Iosif Plum, Eric Jung, Yongmin Nalla, Venkatram Lacava, Cosimo MacDonald, Kevin F Petropoulos, Periklis Richardson, David J Zheludev, Nikolay I Fibre-optic metadevice for all-optical signal modulation based on coherent absorption |
| title | Fibre-optic metadevice for all-optical signal modulation based on coherent absorption |
| title_full | Fibre-optic metadevice for all-optical signal modulation based on coherent absorption |
| title_fullStr | Fibre-optic metadevice for all-optical signal modulation based on coherent absorption |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fibre-optic metadevice for all-optical signal modulation based on coherent absorption |
| title_short | Fibre-optic metadevice for all-optical signal modulation based on coherent absorption |
| title_sort | fibre optic metadevice for all optical signal modulation based on coherent absorption |
| topic | Fibre Optics And Optical Communications |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87207 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44348 |
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