Ultrafast all-optical switching in one-dimensional semiconductor-polymer hybrid nonlinear photonic crystals with relaxing Kerr nonlinearity

Journal of Optics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Meng, Zi Ming ^a   Qin, Fei ^a   Li, Zhi Yuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

all optical switching; hybrid structures; Kerr nonlinearity; photonic crystals

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; HYBRID MATERIALS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POLYMERS; RELAXATION TIME; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SWITCHING;

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; FEMTOSECOND DYNAMICS; HYBRID STRUCTURE; KERR NONLINEARITY; NONLINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR POLYMERS; ULTRAFAST ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 84861815477     PISSN: 20408978     EISSN: 20408986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/14/6/065003     Document Type: Article

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