High-contrast all-optical bistable switching in photonic crystal microcavities
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- 30 September 2003
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 83 (14) , 2739-2741
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1615835
Abstract
We present a bistable photonic crystal configuration consisting of a waveguide sided coupled to a single-mode cavity with instantaneous Kerr nonlinearity. We show that such a configuration can generate extremely high contrast between the bistable states in its transmission with low input power. We also provide an analytic theory that can completely account for the entire transient switching dynamics, as revealed by finite difference time domain simulations.Keywords
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