Ultralow-power all-optical switching

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Soljačić, Marin ^a   Lidorikis, Elefterios ^a   Joannopoulos, J D ^a   Hau, Lene Vestergaard ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SINGLE RESONANCE; ULTRASLOW LIGHT (USL);

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 20844445429     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1900956     Document Type: Article

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