Controlling light with light using coherent metadevices: All-optical transistor, summator and invertor

Light: Science and Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Fang, Xu ^a   MacDonald, Kevin F ^a   Zheludev, Nikolay I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

All optical data processing; Coherent control; Photonic metamaterials

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA HANDLING; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; LIGHT; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS; PLASMONICS;

ALL-OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; ALL-OPTICAL TRANSISTOR; COHERENT CONTROL; COHERENT INTERACTION; INFORMATION BOTTLENECK; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; PHOTONIC METAMATERIALS; SMALL SIGNAL AMPLIFIERS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 84989325841     PISSN: 20955545     EISSN: 20477538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2015.65     Document Type: Article

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