Access Type
Open Access Dissertation
Date of Award
January 2022
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Pharm.D./Ph.D.
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
First Advisor
Dimitrios Sounas
Abstract
As digital circuits are approaching the limits of Moore’s law, a great deal of efforthas been directed to alternative computing approaches. Among them, the old concept of optical signal processing (OSP) has attracted attention, revisited in the light of metamaterials and nano-photonics. This approach has been successful in realizing basic mathematical operations, such as derivatives and integrals, but it is difficult to be applied to more complex ones. Inspired by digital filters, we propose a radically new OSP approach, able to realize arbitrary mathematical operations over a nano-photonic platform. We demonstrate this concept for the case of spatial differentiation, image compression and color encoding through a heuristic design based on a waveguide with periodic arrays of input/output channels at its opposite walls.
Recommended Citation
Moeini, Mohammad Moein, "Optical Signal Processing With Discrete-Space Metamaterials" (2022). Wayne State University Dissertations. 3686.
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/3686