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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0533-5
Electronic_ISBN :
Pending
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942986
