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Coherent cryptography with dissipative all-optical metamaterial gates

Angelos Xomalis, Iosif Demirtzioglou, Yongmin Jung, Eric Plum, Cosimo Lacava, Periklis Petropoulos, David J. Richardson, Nikolay I. Zheludev

Published Jan 5, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate a new type of secure optical communication based on dissipative metamaterial logic gates that encrypt and decrypt information in an all-optical telecommunication fibre network with mutually coherent signal channels.

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