Ultralow-energy and high-contrast all-optical switch involving Fano resonance based on coupled photonic crystal nanocavities

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 11877-11888

  Nozaki, Kengo ^a,b   Shinya, Akihiko ^a,b   Matsuo, Shinji ^a   Sato, Tomonari ^a   Kuramochi, Eiichi ^a,b   Notomi, Masaya ^a,b  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL SWITCHES; RESONANCE;

ACHIEVABLE PERFORMANCE; ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; ASYMMETRIC TRANSMISSIONS; BETTER PERFORMANCE; COUPLED OPTICAL CAVITIES; OPERATION BANDWIDTH; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL NANOCAVITIES; SWITCHING OPERATIONS;

SWITCHING;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84878541340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.011877     Document Type: Article

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