Optical receiver with helicity-dependent magnetization eversal

AZIM, Zubair Al, OSTLER, Thomas, XU, Chudong and ROY, Kaushik (2019). Optical receiver with helicity-dependent magnetization eversal. IEEE transactions on magnetics, 55 (1).

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose helicity-dependent switching (HDS) of magnetization in Co/Pt for an energy efficient optical receiver. Designing a low-power optical receiver for optical-to-electrical signal conversion has proven to be very challenging. Current day optical receivers use a photodiode that produces a photocurrent in response to input optical signals, and power hungry transimpedance amplifiers are required to amplify the small photocurrents. These limitations can be overcome by using light helicity-induced switching of magnetization which can avoid the requirement of photodiodes and subsequent transimpedance amplification by sensing the change in magnetization with a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ). Magnetization switching of a thin ferromagnet layer using circularly polarized laser pulses has recently been demonstrated which shows a one-to-one correspondence between light helicity and the magnetization state. We use these phenomena to directly switch the magnetization state of a thin Co/Pt ferromagnet layer at the receiver via circularly polarized laser pulses. The circular polarization is controlled in accordance with digital input data which establishes a one-to-one correspondence between the transmitted data and output magnetization state. The Co/Pt layer is used as the free layer of an MTJ, the resistance of which is modified by the laser pulses. Since the output magnetization state is controlled by the input data, the MTJ resistance is directly converted to a digital output signal. Our device-to-circuit level simulation results indicate that HDS-based optical receiver circuit consumes only 0.124 pJ/bit energy, which is much lower than existing techniques.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: 02 Physical Sciences; 09 Engineering; Applied Physics
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Materials and Engineering Research Institute > Advanced Coatings and Composites Research Centre > Polymers, Composites and Spectroscopy Group
Departments - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Faculty of Science, Technology and Arts > Department of Engineering and Mathematics
SWORD Depositor: Symplectic Elements
Depositing User: Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited: 18 Oct 2018 10:48
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2021 06:46
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/22985

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