Single photonic-crystal defect switch for all-optical ultrafast operation using two photon absorption

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E87-C, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1142-1147

  Kanamoto, Kyozo ^a   Lan, Sheng ^a,b   Ikeda, Naoki ^a   Tanaka, Yu ^a   Sugimoto, Yoshimasa ^a   Asakawa, Kiyoshi ^a   Ishikawa, Hiroshi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHANTOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

All optical switch; Optical nonlinearity; Photonic crystal; Two photon absorption; Ultrashort optical pulse

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; CRYSTALS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS (PC); TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION; ULTRASHORT OPTICAL PULSES;

PHOTONS;

EID: 3242735692     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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