Optical switching at 1.55 μm in silicon racetrack resonators using phase change materials

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 14, 2013, Pages

  Rudé, Miquel ^a   Pello, Josselin ^b   Simpson, Robert E ^c   Osmond, Johann ^a   Roelkens, Gunther ^d   Van Der Tol, Jos J G M ^b   Pruneri, Valerio ^a,e  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; DIGITAL STORAGE; MODULATION; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL SWITCHES; RESONATORS; SILICON;

DATA STORAGE MATERIALS; HIGH CONTRAST; MODULATION DEPTH; OPTICAL SWITCHING; PHASE CHANGE; RACETRACK RESONATORS; STRUCTURAL PHASIS; TRANSMITTED LIGHT;

PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS;

EID: 84885608931     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4824714     Document Type: Article

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