Ultralow-power all-optical switching
Abstract
Using analytical modeling and detailed numerical simulations, we investigate properties of hybrid systems of photonic crystal microcavities which incorporate a highly nonlinear ultraSlow light medium. We demonstrate that such systems, while being miniature in size (order wavelength), and integrable, could enable ultrafast nonlinear all-optical switching at ultralow (even single photon) energy levels.
- Publication:
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Applied Physics Letters
- Pub Date:
- April 2005
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:physics/0406001
- Bibcode:
- 2005ApPhL..86q1101S
- Keywords:
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- 42.70.Qs;
- 42.65.Pc;
- Photonic bandgap materials;
- Optical bistability multistability and switching including local field effects;
- Physics - Optics
- E-Print:
- 13 pages, 3 figures