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Spatial Integration by a Dielectric Slab Waveguide and its Planar Graphene-based Counterpart

Optics 2017-05-24 v1

Abstract

Motivated by the recent progress in analog computing [Science 343, 160 (2014)], a new approach to perform spatial integration is presented using a dielectric slab waveguide. Our approach is indeed based on the fact that the transmission coefficient of a simple dielectric slab waveguide at its mode excitation angle matches the Green's function of first order integration. Inspired by the mentioned dielectric-based integrator, we further demonstrate its graphene-based counterpart. The latter is not only reconfigurable but also highly miniaturized in contrast to the previously reported designs [Opt. Commun. 338, 457 (2015)]. Such integrators have the potential to be used in ultrafast analog computation and signal processing.

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@article{arxiv.1703.02805,
  title  = {Spatial Integration by a Dielectric Slab Waveguide and its Planar Graphene-based Counterpart},
  author = {Farzad Zangeneh-Nejad and Amin Khavasi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.02805},
  year   = {2017}
}
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