All-optical bistable band-edge Bloch modes in a two-dimensional photonic crystal

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 23, 2006, Pages

  Yacomotti, A M ^a   Raineri, F ^a   Vecchi, G ^a   Monnier, P ^a   Raj, R ^a   Levenson, A ^a   Ben Bakir, B ^b   Seassal, C ^b   Letartre, X ^b   Viktorovitch, P ^b   Di Cioccio, L ^c   Fedeli, J M ^c  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES NANOTECHNOLOGIES DE LYON   (France)

^c CEA LETI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; PHOTONS; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ALL-OPTICAL BISTABLE BAND-EDGE BLOCH MODES; ELECTRONICALLY INDUCED NONLINEAR REFRACTION INDEX; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; RELAXATION TIME;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 33745013631     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2207842     Document Type: Article

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