Spatiotemporal Fourier transform with femtosecond pulses for on-chip devices
基于飞秒脉冲的片上器件时空傅里叶变换
オンチップデバイスのフェムト秒パルス時空間フーリエ変換
필름 부품의 비초 펄스 시공 푸리엽 변환
Transformación de Fourier espacio - tiempo de pulso Femtosegundo para dispositivos en chip
Transformation de Fourier espace - temps des impulsions femtosecondes pour les dispositifs à puce
преобразование Фурье - времени
Yulong Wang 王玉龙 ¹ ², Changjun Min 闵长俊 ¹, Yuquan Zhang 张聿全 ¹, Xiaocong Yuan 袁小聪 ¹
¹ Nanophotonics Research Centre, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Micro-Scale Optical Information Technology & Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
中国 深圳 深圳大学纳米光子学研究中心,深圳市微尺度光信息重点实验室 微纳光电子学研究院
² Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, China
中国 东莞 松山湖材料实验室
On-chip manipulation of the spatiotemporal characteristics of optical signals is important in the transmission and processing of information. However, the simultaneous modulation of on-chip optical pulses, both spatially at the nano-scale and temporally over ultra-fast intervals, is challenging. Here, we propose a spatiotemporal Fourier transform method for on-chip control of the propagation of femtosecond optical pulses and verify this method employing surface plasmon polariton (SPP) pulses on metal surface.
An analytical model is built for the method and proved by numerical simulations. By varying space- and frequency-dependent parameters, we demonstrate that the traditional SPP focal spot may be bent into a ring shape, and that the direction of propagation of a curved SPP-Airy beam may be reversed at certain moments to create an S-shaped path.
Compared with conventional spatial modulation of SPPs, this method offers potentially a variety of extraordinary effects in SPP modulation especially associated with the temporal domain, thereby providing a new platform for on-chip spatiotemporal manipulation of optical pulses with applications including ultrafast on-chip photonic information processing, ultrafast pulse/beam shaping, and optical computing.
