Compact optical switches and modulators based on dispersion engineered photonic crystals

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 404-414

  O'Faolain, Liam ^a   Beggs, Daryl M ^a   White, Thomas P ^a   Kampfrath, Tobias ^b   Kuipers, Kobus ^b   Krauss, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Engineered photonic nanostructures; Nonlinear effects; Photonic crystals; Silicon nanophotonics; Slow light; Ultrafast nonlinear processes

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH PRODUCT; EXTINCTION RATIOS; FEMTOSECOND PULSE; FLAT BAND; LARGE GROUPS; NONLINEAR EFFECT; NONLINEAR EFFECTS; OPTICAL PULSE; OPTICAL SWITCHING; PHOTONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; TIME-SCALES; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR;

DISPERSIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; LIGHT MODULATORS; MODULATION; NANOPHOTONICS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONICS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; SLOW LIGHT;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 79953673133     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2010.2047918     Document Type: Article

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