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Low-photon-number optical switch and AND/OR logic gates based on quantum dot-bimodal cavity coupling system

Shen Ma, Han Ye, Zhongyuan Yu, Wen Zhang, Yiwei Peng, Xiang Cheng, Yumin Liu

Published Jan 11, 2016• 9 citations
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Abstract

We propose a new scheme based on quantum dot-bimodal cavity coupling system to realize all-optical switch and logic gates in low-photon-number regime. Suppression of mode transmission due to the destructive interference effect is theoretically demonstrated by driving the cavity with two orthogonally polarized pulsed lasers at certain pulse delay. The transmitted mode can be selected by designing laser pulse sequence. The optical switch with high on-off ratio emerges when considering one driving laser as the control. Moreover, the AND/OR logic gates based on photon polarization are achieved by cascading the coupling system. Both proposed optical switch and logic gates work well in ultra-low energy magnitude. Our work may enable various applications of all-optical computing and quantum information processing.

DOI
10.1038/srep19001

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