Ultrafast all-optical switching in a silicon-nanocrystal-based silicon slot waveguide at telecom wavelengths

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1506-1511

  Martínez, Alejandro ^a   Blasco, Javier ^a   Sanchis, Pablo ^a   Galán, José V ^a   García Rupérez, Jaime ^a   Jordana, Emmanuel ^b   Gautier, Pauline ^b   Lebour, Youcef ^c   Hernández, Sergi ^c   Guider, Romain ^d   Daldosso, Nicola ^d   Garrido, Blas ^c   Fedeli, Jean Marc ^b   Pavesi, Lorenzo ^d   Martí, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b CEA LETI   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

All optical switching; CMOS photonics; Silicon nanocrystals; Silicon slot waveguides

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; COMPLEMENTARY METAL-OXIDE-SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; MODULATION DEPTH; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; POWER LEVELS; RING RESONATOR; SILICON CHIP; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS; SLOT WAVEGUIDE; SWITCHING DEVICES; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS; ULTRAFAST ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; MOS DEVICES; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SILICA; SWITCHING; WAVEGUIDES;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

NANOMATERIAL; SILICON; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; TELECOMMUNICATION;

NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL DEVICES; SILICON; SILICON DIOXIDE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 77951050244     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl9041017     Document Type: Article

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