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US 7,627,206 B2Granted
Plasmon multiplexing
AssigneeSearete LLC
InventorsRoderick A. Hyde, Edward K. Y. Jung, Nathan P. Myhrvold, John Brian Pendry, Clarence T. Tegreene, Lowell L. Wood, Jr.
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Abstract
A variety of structures, methods, systems, and configurations can support plasmons for multiplexing.
Claims24
A system, comprising:
- a first plasmon switch receptive to a first control light signal and a first input plasmon signal and configured to output a first switched plasmon signal, wherein the first plasmon switch is configured to pass the first input plasmon signal in a first passing time interval and to attenuate the first input plasmon signal in a first attenuating time interval to produce the first switched plasmon signal;
- a second plasmon switch receptive to a second control light signal and a second input plasmon signal and configured to output a second switched plasmon signal;
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- signal mixing circuitry responsive to the first switched plasmon signal and the second switched plasmon signal to produce a multiplexed signal.
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