Fast bistable all-optical switch and memory on a silicon photonic crystal on-chip

Optics Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 2575-2577

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

^a NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCAVITIES; PHOTON DENSITY; SILICON PHOTON CRYSTALS; THRESHOLD POWER;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LOGIC CIRCUITS; OPTICAL ENGINEERING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONS; PLASMAS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; SILICON;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 27744468048     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.30.002575     Document Type: Article

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