DocumentCode
2067139
Title
Q-factor dependent Kerr switching of semiconductor microcavities
Author
Yüce, Emre ; Ctistis, Georgios ; Claudon, Julien ; Bazin, Maela ; Gérard, Jean-Michel ; Vos, Willem L.
Author_Institution
Complex Photonic Syst. (COPS), Univ. of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
fYear
2011
fDate
22-26 May 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
1
Abstract
We present our results on GaAs-AlAs planar cavities with a cavity resonance in the telecom range and with different quality factors. Here, we show that a GaAs-AlAs microcavity with a quality factor Q=320 can be switched within lps via the electronic Kerr effect. We observe that the speed of the switching time is only limited by the dynamics of the light in our cavity but not by the constituent materials.
Keywords
III-V semiconductors; Q-factor; aluminium compounds; gallium arsenide; micro-optics; microcavities; optical Kerr effect; optical switches; GaAs-AlAs; Q-factor dependent Kerr switching; cavity resonance; electronic Kerr effect; planar cavities; quality factors; semiconductor microcavities; Q factor;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location
Munich
ISSN
Pending
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-0533-5
Electronic_ISBN
Pending
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942986
Filename
5942986
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