Carrier diffusion and recombination in photonic crystal nanocavity optical switches

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1396-1403

  Tanabe, Takasumi ^a   Taniyama, Hideaki ^a   Notomi, Masaya ^a  

^a Bio Medical Informatics Research Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Charge carrier processes; Optical resonators; Optical switches; Periodic structures

Indexed keywords

CIVIL AVIATION; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; DIFFUSION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONICS; POWDERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; TIME SWITCHES;

(100) SILICON; CARRIER (CO); CARRIER DIFFUSIONS; CARRIER DYNAMICS; FAST SWITCHING; NANO CAVITIES; NANO-CAVITIES; NONLINEAR OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); P I N STRUCTURE; PHOTONIC; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL (PHC); RECOVERY TIME; SILICON WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 46349087138     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.923638     Document Type: Article

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