Femtosecond versus Picosecond All-Optical Switching of 3D Silicon Photonic Crystals near Telecom Wavelengths

Author

Harding, Philip J. ; Euser, Tijmen G. ; Vos, Willem L.

Author_Institution

FOM Inst. for Atomic & Molecular Phys. (AMOLF), Amsterdam

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

This work presents non-degenerate pump-probe experiments on a silicon woodpile photonic crystal. The pump tunes through half the electronic band gap (EG) of Si, and the probe through the blue stop gap edge, as shown by the boxes. The crystal is switched by exciting free carriers via two-photon absorption, and the dynamics of the stop gap is probed at time Deltat after the pump.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; energy gap; high-speed optical techniques; optical switches; photonic crystals; silicon; two-photon processes; 3D silicon photonic crystals; Si; all-optical switching; electronic band gap; femtosecond switching; free carriers; nondegenerate pump-probe experiments; picosecond switching; pump tuning; silicon woodpile photonic crystal; stop gap dynamics; two-photon absorption; Absorption; Frequency; Photonic band gap; Photonic crystals; Physics; Probes; Reflectivity; Silicon; Switches; Telecommunication switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386578

Filename

4386578