DocumentCode
1357260
Title
Bistability by Slow Light Photonic Crystal Waveguide
Author
Dai, Lei ; Jiang, Chun
Author_Institution
State Key Lab. of Adv. Opt. Commun. Syst. & Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China
Volume
28
Issue
6
fYear
2010
fDate
3/15/2010 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
905
Lastpage
909
Abstract
We study theoretically and numerically optical bistability in photonic crystal waveguide-cavity system with cavity holding multipole mode patterns. The elimination of dominant component of the radiation in cavity can reduce dramatically the scattering of light by cavity and can be used to achieve bistability at band edge. Numerical results performed by the finite-difference time-domain method indicate that the switch power can be reduced greatly that can be regarded as the improvement of quality-factor in cavity.
Keywords
Q-factor; finite difference time-domain analysis; nanophotonics; optical bistability; optical materials; optical switches; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; slow light; finite-difference time-domain method; light scattering; nanocavities; optical bistability; optical switch power; quality factor; slow light photonic crystal waveguide-cavity system; Bistability; photonic crystal; slow light; waveguide;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0733-8724
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/JLT.2009.2038599
Filename
5353667
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