Study of thermally-induced optical bistability and the role of surface treatments in Si-based mid-infrared photonic crystal cavities

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 24828-24837

  Shankar, Raji ^a   Bulu, Irfan ^a   Leijssen, Rick ^b   Lončar, Marko ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SURFACE TREATMENT;

MIDINFRARED; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CAVITIES; Q-FACTORS; QUALITY FACTORS; SI-BASED; TIME CONSTANTS; TIME DOMAIN MEASUREMENT; WET PROCESS;

OPTICAL BISTABILITY;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RAYS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 82055186444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.024828     Document Type: Article

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