• DocumentCode
    159338
  • Title

    High speed optical bistability in the cascaded silicon photonic crystal nanoresonantors

  • Author

    Yi Wang ; Mengxi Ji ; Zheng Wu ; Qingzhong Huang ; Jinsong Xia ; Jinzhong Yu

  • Author_Institution
    Wuhan Nat. Lab. for Optoelectron., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    27-29 Aug. 2014
  • Firstpage
    169
  • Lastpage
    170
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate optical bistability (OB) in the cascaded silicon photonic crystal (SiPhC) nanoresonators using 10-GHz pulse light. The pulse energy to operate this device is less than 40 fJ with switching energy of 4.6 fJ.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; nanophotonics; optical bistability; optical resonators; optical switches; photonic crystals; silicon; Si; cascaded silicon photonic crystal nanoresonantors; energy 4.6 fJ; frequency 10 GHz; high speed optical bistability; pulse energy; pulse light; switching energy; Optical attenuators; Optical bistability; Optical pulses; Optical resonators; Optical switches; Photonic crystals; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2014 IEEE 11th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Paris
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-2282-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/Group4.2014.6961973
  • Filename
    6961973