Enhanced nonlinear absorption in low-finesse metal-dielectric fabry-perot resonators

Author

Fuentes-Hernandez, Canek ; Padilha, Lazaro A. ; Hales, Joel M. ; Owens, Daniel ; Kim, Jungbae ; Webster, Scott ; Perry, Joseph W. ; Hagan, David J. ; VanStryland, Eric W. ; Kippelen, Bernard

Author_Institution

Center for Org. Photonics & Electron., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We report on the nonlinear optical properties of metal-dielectric Fabry-Perot resonators with broad spectral bandwidths in the visible, peak transmittance larger than 70 %, and a nonlinear absorptionup to 20times larger than bulk ZnO.

Keywords

Fabry-Perot resonators; absorption coefficients; dielectric resonators; nonlinear optics; photonic band gap; 1D metal-dielectric photonic bandgap structures; MDFP resonator; MDPBG; broad spectral bandwidth; enhanced nonlinear absorption coefficients; low-finesse metal-dielectric Fabry-Perot resonators; nonlinear optical response; peak transmittance; Absorption; Biomedical optical imaging; Fabry-Perot; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical bistability; Optical devices; Optical resonators; Photonics; Zinc oxide; (160.3900) Metals; (190.4360) Nonlinear optics, devices; (230.5750) Resonators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5225441