All-optical switching using controlled formation of large volume three-dimensional optical matter

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Liu, Jin ^a   Dai, Qiao Feng ^a   Meng, Zi Ming ^a   Huang, Xu Guang ^a   Wu, Li Jun ^a   Guo, Qi ^a   Hu, Wei ^a   Lan, Sheng ^a   Gopal, Achanta Venu ^b   Trofimov, V A ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DIFFRACTION; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; HOLOGRAPHIC INTERFEROMETRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (AIP); DISORDERED STATES; EXTINCTION RATIO (ER); OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); OPTICAL SWITCHING; POLYSTYRENE SPHERES; SWITCHING OPERATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D); TRANSITION (JEL CLASSIFICATIONS:E52 ,E41 ,E31);

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 45149127823     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2944233     Document Type: Article

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