• DocumentCode
    2242386
  • Title

    Hitless low-power all-optical absorption based switching with organics on silicon

  • Author

    Hou, Taige ; Wen, Henry ; Kuzucu, Onur ; Hales, Joel ; Matichak, Jonathan D. ; Barlow, Stephen ; Perry, Joseph ; Jang, Sei-Hum ; Marder, Seth R. ; Jen, Alex ; Gaeta, Alexander L. ; Lipson, Michal

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate all-optical switching of a silicon ring-resonator using two photon absorption of engineered organic materials. We show hitless switching of 7dB change in extinction with power dissipation of 400 fJ/op.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; nonlinear optics; optical switches; organic compounds; silicon; Si; engineered organic materials; hitless low-power all-optical absorption based switching; silicon ring-resonator; two photon absorption; Absorption; Optical resonators; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5950704