Extremely low power optical bistability in silicon demonstrated using 1D photonic crystal nanocavity

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 21108-21117

  Haret, Laurent Daniel ^a   Tanabe, Takasumi ^a,b   Kuramochi, Eiichi ^a,b   Notomi, Masaya ^a,b  

^a Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

1-D PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; GEOMETRICAL STRUCTURE; INPUT POWER; LOW POWER; ONE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; SMALL REGION; THERMOOPTICS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 70749126729     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.021108     Document Type: Article

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