Ultrafast all-optical modulator with femtojoule absorbed switching energy in silicon-on-insulator

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 22485-22496

  Schönenberger, Sophie ^a   Stöferle, Thilo ^a   Moll, Nikolaj ^a   Mahrt, Rainer F ^a   Dahlem, Marcus S ^a,c   Wahlbrink, Thorsten ^b   Bolten, Jens ^b   Mollenhauer, Thomas ^b   Kurz, Heinrich ^b   Offrein, Bert J ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AMO GMBH   (Germany)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT MODULATORS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

1-D PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; ALL OPTICAL SWITCH; ALL-OPTICAL; CONTROL PULSE; HIGH-SPEED; MODULATION DEPTH; NEAR INFRARED; PICOSECONDS; PLASMA DISPERSION EFFECTS; SILICON ON INSULATOR; SWITCH-ON; SWITCHING ENERGY; SWITCHING POWER; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS; ULTRA-FAST;

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 78049509375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.022485     Document Type: Article

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