Energy-bandwidth trade-off in all-optical photonic crystal microcavity switches

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 18410-18422

  Heuck, Mikkel ^a   Kristensen, Philip Trøst ^a   Mørk, Jesper ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; INVESTMENTS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SWITCHING; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

ALL OPTICAL SWITCH; ALL-OPTICAL; COUPLED MODE THEORY; DESIGN GUIDELINES; DEVICE FABRICATIONS; ENERGY REQUIREMENTS; OPTICAL TIME-DIVISION MULTIPLEXED; OPTIMUM PARAMETERS; OUTPUT WAVEGUIDES; PATTERNING EFFECTS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CAVITIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL MICROCAVITIES; SWITCHING APPLICATIONS; SWITCHING DYNAMICS; SWITCHING OPERATIONS; TIME-SCALES; ULTRA-FAST DYNAMICS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 80052715147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.018410     Document Type: Article

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