Low-Power All-Optical Switching through Frozen Light at Degenerate Band Edges

Nadav Gutman; Andrey A. Sukhorukov; Falk Eilenberger; C. Martijn de Sterke

doi:10.1364/BGPP.2012.JW4D.2

Advanced Photonics Congress
OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2012),
paper JW4D.2
•https://doi.org/10.1364/BGPP.2012.JW4D.2

Low-Power All-Optical Switching through Frozen Light at Degenerate Band Edges

Nadav Gutman, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Falk Eilenberger, and C. Martijn de Sterke

Nonlinear Photonics 2012

Colorado Springs, Colorado United States
17–21 June 2012
ISBN: 978-1-55752-946-6

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N. Gutman, A. A. Sukhorukov, F. Eilenberger, and C. M. de Sterke, "Low-Power All-Optical Switching through Frozen Light at Degenerate Band Edges," in Advanced Photonics Congress, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2012), paper JW4D.2.

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Abstract

We predict that nonlinear waveguides designed to support frozen light at degenerate band edges enable tunable bistable response and orders-of-magnitude lower all-optical switching threshold compared to conventional slow-light at regular band-edges.

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