• DocumentCode
    3054159
  • Title

    Thermal nonlinearity and optical bistability in a graphene-silicon waveguide resonator

  • Author

    Horvath, C. ; Bachman, D. ; Van, V.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    June 30 2013-July 4 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We report observation of optical bistability due to enhanced thermal nonlinearity in a graphene-silicon waveguide resonator. Ohmic self-heating in the graphene layer results in a 2.7-fold increase in the nonlinear index over bare silicon waveguide.
  • Keywords
    graphene; optical bistability; optical resonators; optical waveguides; silicon; C-Si; Ohmic self-heating; graphene layer; graphene-silicon waveguide resonator; nonlinear index; optical bistability; thermal nonlinearity; Conductivity; Graphene; Heating; Optical bistability; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Kyoto
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOPR.2013.6599993
  • Filename
    6599993
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3054159