Optical switching by capillary condensation

Nature Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 172-175

  Barthelemy, Pierre ^a   Ghulinyan, Mher ^b   Gaburro, Zeno ^b   Toninelli, Costanza ^a   Pavesi, Lorenzo ^b   Wiersma, Diederik S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; CAPILLARY CONDENSATION; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; OPTICAL SWITCHING; PHOTONIC MATERIALS; PHOTONIC STRUCTURE; REFRACTIVE-INDEX DISTRIBUTION;

OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

HIGH INTENSITY LIGHT;

EID: 34248384922     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2007.24     Document Type: Article

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