{"id":140230,"date":"2022-06-07T02:22:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T07:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/a-novel-all-optical-switching-method-makes-optical-computing-and-communication-systems-more-power-efficient"},"modified":"2022-06-07T02:22:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T07:22:51","slug":"a-novel-all-optical-switching-method-makes-optical-computing-and-communication-systems-more-power-efficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/a-novel-all-optical-switching-method-makes-optical-computing-and-communication-systems-more-power-efficient","title":{"rendered":"A novel all-optical switching method makes optical computing and communication systems more power-efficient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-novel-all-optical-switching-method-makes-optical-computing-and-communication-systems-more-power-efficient3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A group of photonics researchers at Tampere University have introduced a novel method to control a light beam with another beam through a unique plasmonic metasurface in a linear medium at ultra-low power. This simple linear switching method makes nanophotonic devices such as optical computing and communication systems more sustainable, requiring low intensity of light.<\/p>\n<p>All\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/optical+switching\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">optical switching<\/a> is the modulation of signal light due to control light in such a way that it possesses the on\/off conversion function. In general, a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light+beam\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light beam<\/a> can be modulated with another intense laser beam in the presence of a nonlinear medium.<\/p>\n<p>The switching method developed by the researchers is fundamentally based on the quantum optical phenomenon known as Enhancement of Index of Refraction (EIR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of photonics researchers at Tampere University have introduced a novel method to control a light beam with another beam through a unique plasmonic metasurface in a linear medium at ultra-low power. This simple linear switching method makes nanophotonic devices such as optical computing and communication systems more sustainable, requiring low intensity of light. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}