High-contrast all-optical bistable switching in photonic crystal microcavities

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 2739-2741

  Yanik, Mehmet Fatih ^a   Fan, Shanhui ^a   Soljačić, Marin ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PHOTONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

CONTRAST RATIO;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0142167551     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1615835     Document Type: Article

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