On the power-bandwidth trade-off in bistable photonic switches

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7223, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Naqavi, Ali ^a   Abediasl, Hooman ^a   Mehrany, Khashayar ^a   Khorasani, Sina ^a   Chamanzar, Meysam Reza ^b   Adibi, Ali ^b  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain method; Nonlinear optics; Optical bistability; Photonic crystal

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH LIMITATION; BISTABLE; BISTABLE SWITCHES; COUPLED-MODE THEORY; DIRECT COUPLED; FDTD SIMULATIONS; HYSTERSIS LOOP; KERR TYPE NONLINEARITY; LOW-POWER OPERATION; NONLINEAR FINITE DIFFERENCE; PHOTONIC SWITCH; POWER LEVELS; QUASI-STEADY STATE; SETTLING TIME; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

BANDWIDTH; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; DATA PROCESSING; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHONONS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 65649131593     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.809507     Document Type: Conference Paper

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