We proposed a reconfigurable all-optical logic gate (AND, OR) based on a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with saturated absorber (VCSEL-SA) subject to dual pulse injection and numerically investigated the effects of injection delay, injection strength and bias current on the system performance. The results show that, through adjusting bias current, the pulse injection strength and the injection delay between two pulses, the reconfigurable all-optical logic gate (AND, OR) can be realized. For a suitable injection intensity, all-optical logic AND and OR gates can be implemented within a certain bias current range. Moreover, both AND and OR gates have good robust to noise under suitable injection strength. These results are expected to open a new window for future ultra-fast neuromorphic computing systems to solve complex classification and decision-making tasks
In this paper, we propose and numerically demonstrate a security-enhanced high-speed chaotic communication system by introducing phase modulation and phase-to-intensity conversion. The driving laser (DL) with delayed optical feedback can be used to generate the chaotic driving signal, which is simultaneously injected into two response lasers (RLs) through a phase modulator (PM) and a dispersion component (De). The simulated results show that, due to the phase modulation and phase-tointensity conversion, TDS of injected chaos signal from DL can be effectively suppressed and its bandwidth can be increased to 39.6 GHz under suitable parameter conditions. Simultaneously injecting the chaos signal into two identical RLs, high-quality chaos signals with weakened TDS and enhanced bandwidth between two RLs can be achieved even under certain parameter mismatches, but the synchronization quality between DL and any one of RLs is extremely bad. Based on the system synchronization, secure transmission of 20 Gbit/s messages can be realized and the transmission distance can be over 200km.
Organic solar cells show a commercially viable future duo to their inherent advantages, such as light weight, flexibility,
and so on. Recently, a lot of progress has been made in every domain of organic solar cells. Among these, plasmonic
light trapping is regarded as a promising light management technology for improving the light absorption in organic
active layer. In this work, we numerically investigate the light enhancement in organic solar cell by embedding metal
gratings as electrodes, including the anode and cathode. The absorption enhancement mechanism is analyzed, and the
effects of grating parameters and incident angle are also investigated systematically. The results show the plasmonic
gratings, especially the bottom grating, have an obvious improvement for light harvesting in organic layer, and an optical
enhancement factor about 100% is obtained.
We numerically study the splitting of light beam which carries orbital angular momentum (OAM) through single metal nano-scale hole. A light beam carrying with OAM has a helical phase distribution in the transverse plane, where the electric field has the form: E(r,θ)=E0exp(lθ), and l is the topological charge which denotes the value of OAM. The circular polarization state is corresponding to the spin angular momentum (SAM), where s=+1 represents the left-handed polarization and s=-1 the right-handed polarization. Simulation results show l dependent splitting of beam through nano metal hole. When l is odd, the transmitted far field splits while no splitting happens when l is even. This phenomenon is attributed to the interaction between OAM beam and plasmonic mode of metal nano-hole. It is revealed that different OAM beam can excite different transverse mode in the metal cavity, which means the interaction should obey an OAM section rule. We show that even l can excite transverse mode with zero total AM and odd l can excite transverse mode with non-zero total AM within the hole. Orbital-spin conversion is also revealed in the free wave/plasmon interaction.
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