Optical bistable switching action of Si high-Q photonic-crystal nanocavities

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2678-2687

  Notomi, Masaya ^a,b   Shinya, Akihiko ^a   Mitsugi, Satoshi ^a   Kira, Goh ^a,b   Kuramochi, Eiichi ^a   Tanabe, Takasumi ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONS; RESONANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSISTORS;

OPTICAL CIRCUITS; OPTICAL TRANSISTORS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; RESONANT MODES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 21244486492     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.002678     Document Type: Article

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