Title :
Design and Analysis of Ultrafast and Tunable All Optical Metamaterial Switch Enhanced by Metal Nanocomposite
Author :
Hajizadegan, M. ; Ahmadi, Vahid ; Sakhdari, M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tarbiat Modares Univ., Tehran, Iran
Abstract :
In this paper, we propose a tunable all optical switch based on metamaterial structure enhanced with metal nanocomposite layer which has adjustable optical properties and strong nonlinear Kerr effect. The results demonstrate an ultrafast, low threshold and high extinction ratio all optical switch with tunable frequency operating in wide range of incident angle. We also design nanostructure based two channels modulator and multiplexer by using two adjacent Fano resonance peaks caused by metamaterial and plasmonic characteristics.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; nanophotonics; optical Kerr effect; optical metamaterials; optical switches; optical tuning; adjustable optical properties; fano resonance peaks; metal nanocomposite; strong nonlinear Kerr effect; ultrafast tunable all optical metamaterial switch; Metals; Metamaterials; Nanoparticles; Nonlinear optics; Optical switches; Permittivity; Ultrafast optics; All optical switch; Maxwell-Garnett; metamaterial; nanocomposites;
Journal_Title :
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JLT.2013.2261854
