• 文献标题:   Magnetically-Controlled Logic Gates of Graphene Plasmons Based on Non-Reciprocal Coupling
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHU BF, REN GB, GAO YX, WU BL, WAN CL, JIAN SS
  • 作者关键词:   graphene plasmon, logic gate, magnetooptical effect, nonreciprocal coupling
  • 出版物名称:   IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
  • ISSN:   1077-260X EI 1558-4542
  • 通讯作者地址:   Beijing Jiaotong Univ
  • 被引频次:   8
  • DOI:   10.1109/JSTQE.2015.2493958
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

In this paper, we propose magnetically-controlled logic gates of graphene plasmons based on non-reciprocal coupling within the multilayer graphene waveguide structure. The magnetooptical effect of semiconductor substrate leads to the difference in modal indices of graphene plasmons in opposite directions and non-reciprocal coupling, which is investigated by both coupled mode theory (CMT) and finite elements methods (FEM). Such a mechanism enables the design of magnetically-controlled NOT logic gate, whose output logic can be inversed by reversing the plasmons propagation directions. Furthermore, according to the Boolean algebra, we design two functional logic gates performing as OR (AND) logic gates for one direction of input plasmons, while NAND (NOR) logic gates for the reversed input direction. Minimum extinction ratios as 13.6 or 17.5 dB can be obtained for OR (NAND) or AND (NOR) logic gate. The proposed magnetically-controlled logic gates may provide new inspiration to non-reciprocal graphene plasmons devices.