• DocumentCode
    2885515
  • Title

    Ultrafast all-optical switching with silicon inverse opals

  • Author

    Becker, C. ; Linden, S. ; von Freymann, Georg ; Tetreault, N. ; Vekris, E. ; Kitaev, V. ; Ozin, G.A. ; Wegener, Martin

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Chem., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    21-26 May 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We present ultrafast two-color pump-probe experiments on silicon inverse opals. A transient blue-shift of the stopgap leads to transmission changes up to a factor of five with relaxation times about 5 ps.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; high-speed optical techniques; nonlinear optics; optical pumping; silicon; switching; Si; silicon inverse opals; transient blue-shift; ultrafast nonlinear optics; ultrafast optical switching; ultrafast two-color pump-probe; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Optical refraction; Optical scattering; Optical variables control; Probes; Refractive index; Silicon; Ultrafast optics; (190.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics; (230.3990) Microstructure devices;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Long Beach, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2006.4629088
  • Filename
    4629088
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2885515