Low-threshold bistability of slow light in photonic-crystal waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 12380-12385

  Mingaleev, Sergei F ^a   Miroshnichenko, Andrey E ^b   Kivshar, Yuri S ^b  

^a BOGOLYUBOV INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LIGHT VELOCITY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

NONLINEAR CAVITY; PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; RESONANCE QUALITY FACTOR; RESONANT TRANSMISSION;

OPTICAL BISTABILITY;

EID: 34648831714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.012380     Document Type: Article

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