Graphene-based Solitons for Spatial Division Multiplexed Switching

Spatial division multiplexing utilizes the directionality of lights propagating k-vector to separate it into distinct spatial directions. Here we show that the anisotropy of orthogonal spatial Solitons propagating in a single Graphene monolayer results in phase-based multiplexing. We use the self- confinement properties of spatial Solitons to increase the usable density of states (DOS) of this switching-system. Furthermore, we show that crossing two orthogonal Solitons exhibit a low (0.035 dB) mutual disturbance from another enabling independent k-vector switching. The efficient utilization of the DOS and multiplexing in real-space enables data processing parallelism with applications in optical networking and computing.