Reconfigurable optical computing based on graphene

Abstract: Optical computing has recently attracted a great deal of interest as it offers the ability to process data in a parallel manner. In this report, an optical computing system based on a metamaterial structure made of graphene is designed and demonstrated. It is shown that the proposed structure is able to do different operations such as taking derivative, and integration of an incident field. In addition to this, it is shown that the proposed structure is reconfigurable due to the possibility of tuning the surface conductivities of the graphene flakes. The proposed configuration not only goes beyond the major restriction of traditional electronic computers, but also provides a dynamic operation.