Switching through symmetry breaking in coupled nonlinear micro-cavities

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 10678-10683

  Maes, Björn ^a   Soljačić, Marin ^a   Joannopoulos, John D ^a   Bienstman, Peter ^b   Baets, Roel ^b   Gorza, Simon Pierre ^c   Haelterman, Marc ^c  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; SWITCHING;

KERR SYSTEMS; MICROCAVITIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 33750740716     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.010678     Document Type: Article

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