Active and passive nanophotonics for information systems applications

Author

Fainman, Y. ; Tan, D. ; Zamek, S. ; Bondarenko, O. ; Simic, A. ; Mizrahi, A. ; Feng, L. ; Nezhad, M. ; Slutsky, B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

10-12 Jan. 2011

Firstpage

145

Lastpage

146

Abstract

This paper explores the role of nanotechnology with focus on nanophotonics in dielectric, metal, and semiconductor inhomogeneous metamaterials and devices for optical communications, information and signal processing, and sensing.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; dielectric materials; gallium arsenide; indium compounds; metals; metamaterials; nanophotonics; nanosensors; optical communication equipment; optical information processing; optical materials; optical sensors; semiconductor lasers; semiconductor quantum wells; silicon compounds; InGaAsP-InP; SiO₂; active nanophotonics; dielectric metamaterials; information processing; information systems applications; metal; nanotechnology; optical communications; passive nanophotonics; semiconductor inhomogeneous metamaterials; sensing; signal processing; Laser modes; Metals; Optical device fabrication; Optical mixing; Optical polarization; Optical resonators; Optical signal processing; Information optics; metamaterials; nanophotonics; optoelectronics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Winter Topicals (WTM), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Keystone, CO

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8428-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PHOTWTM.2011.5730089

Filename

5730089