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Ultra-compact Universal Linear-Optical Logic Gate Based on Single Rectangle Plasmonic Slot Nanoantenna

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Optical logic gates are key elements in all-optical circuits and computing. However, the footprints of current optical logic gates are still on micrometer scale. There remains challenging for further miniaturization of the logic gates to nanometer scale. In this paper, a simple scheme for realizing ultra-compact universal linear-optical logic gates is proposed. All common logic gates (AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, XOR, and XNOR) encoded via binary phase shift keying are achieved by using single rectangle plasmonic slot nanoantenna with a footprint of 200 nm by 50 nm, which considerably shrinks the dimensions of the device.

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This research was funded by National Key Research and Development Program of China (2019YFB2203901), National Natural Science Foundations of China (NSFC) (62065006, 61827819, 61975038), Natural Science Foundations of Guangxi (2019GXNSFAA245024, 2020GXNSFBA159059, 2019GXNSFBA245057), Science and Technology Project of Guangxi (AD19245064, AD18281092), Middle-aged and Young Teachers’ Basic Ability Promotion Project of Guangxi (2018KY0200), Guangxi Key Laboratory Project of Optoelectronic Information Processing (GD20103), Guangxi Key Laboratory Project of Automatic Detection Technology and Instrument (YQ20103), and Innovation Project of GUET Graduate Education (2019YCXS092).

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  1. Photonics Research Center, School of Electronic Engineering and Automation, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, 541004, China

    Houquan Liu, Zhiqiang Quan, Yu Cheng, Shijie Deng & Libo Yuan

  2. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Processing, Guilin University of Electronics Technology, Guilin, 541004, China

    Houquan Liu, Zhiqiang Quan, Yu Cheng, Shijie Deng & Libo Yuan

  3. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Automatic Detecting Technology and Instruments, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, 541004, China

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Conceptualization, Houquan Liu, Zhiqiang Quan, Yu Cheng; investigation, Houquan Liu, Zhiqiang Quan, Shijie Deng; writing—original draft preparation, Houquan Liu, Zhiqiang Quan; writing—review and editing, Yu Cheng, Libo Yuan; funding acquisition, Houquan Liu, Yu Cheng, Shijie Deng, Libo Yuan.

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Liu, H., Quan, Z., Cheng, Y. et al. Ultra-compact Universal Linear-Optical Logic Gate Based on Single Rectangle Plasmonic Slot Nanoantenna. Plasmonics 16, 973–980 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-020-01363-9

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