Identification of competing ultrafast all-optical switching mechanisms in Si woodpile photonic crystals

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 610-619

  Harding, Philip J ^a,b   Euser, Tijmen G ^a,c   Vos, Willem L ^a,b  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PROBES; SILICON; SWITCHING; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

DIFFERENTIAL REFLECTIVITY; ELECTRONIC BAND GAPS; ELECTRONIC KERR EFFECT; NONLINEAR COEFFICIENT; OPTICAL SWITCHING; PUMP-PROBE SPECTROSCOPY; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION; ULTRAFAST ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 65449159007     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.26.000610     Document Type: Article

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