Ultrafast all-optical modulation with hyperbolic metamaterial integrated in Si photonic circuitry

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 10987-10994

  Neira, Andres D ^a   Wurtz, Gregory A ^a   Ginzburg, Pavel ^a,b   Zayats, Anatoly V ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ITMO UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT MODULATORS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; METAMATERIALS; MODULATION; NANORODS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PLASMONS; SILICON; WAVEGUIDES;

ANISOTROPIC METAMATERIALS; INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; NONLINEAR TRANSIENT DYNAMICS; OPERATING WAVELENGTH; OPTICAL METAMATERIALS; OPTIMIZED GEOMETRIES; SWITCHING MECHANISM; ULTRAFAST ALL-OPTICAL MODULATION;

PHOTONIC INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84899850203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.010987     Document Type: Article

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