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

Fibre-optic metadevice for all-optical signal modulation based on coherent absorption
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 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 fully fiberized 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.
metadevice, coherent absorption, all-optical signal processing
Xomalis, Angelos
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Demirtzioglou, Iosif
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Plum, Eric
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Jung, Yongmin
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Nalla, Venkatram
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Lacava, Cosimo
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MacDonald, Kevin F.
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Petropoulos, Periklis
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Richardson, David
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Zheludev, Nikolai
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Xomalis, Angelos
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Demirtzioglou, Iosif
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Plum, Eric
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Jung, Yongmin
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Nalla, Venkatram
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Lacava, Cosimo
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MacDonald, Kevin F.
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Petropoulos, Periklis
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Richardson, David
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Zheludev, Nikolai
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Xomalis, Angelos, Demirtzioglou, Iosif, Plum, Eric, Jung, Yongmin, Nalla, Venkatram, Lacava, Cosimo, MacDonald, Kevin F., Petropoulos, Periklis, Richardson, David and Zheludev, Nikolai (2018) Fibre-optic metadevice for all-optical signal modulation based on coherent absorption. Nature Communications, 9, [182]. (doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02434-y).

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Abstract

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 fully fiberized 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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Accepted/In Press date: 30 November 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 12 January 2018
Published date: 12 January 2018
Keywords: metadevice, coherent absorption, all-optical signal processing

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Local EPrints ID: 416385
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/416385
PURE UUID: f75388b5-163a-49b2-94af-0c56d40b468b
ORCID for Angelos Xomalis: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8406-9571
ORCID for Iosif Demirtzioglou: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3048-1768
ORCID for Eric Plum: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1552-1840
ORCID for Yongmin Jung: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9054-4372
ORCID for Cosimo Lacava: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9950-8642
ORCID for Kevin F. MacDonald: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3877-2976
ORCID for Periklis Petropoulos: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1576-8034
ORCID for David Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058
ORCID for Nikolai Zheludev: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-6636

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Date deposited: 14 Dec 2017 17:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 05:59

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Author: Angelos Xomalis ORCID iD
Author: Iosif Demirtzioglou ORCID iD
Author: Eric Plum ORCID iD
Author: Yongmin Jung ORCID iD
Author: Venkatram Nalla
Author: Cosimo Lacava ORCID iD

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