Title :
Ultrafast all-optical switching with silicon inverse opals
Author :
Becker, C. ; Linden, S. ; von Freymann, Georg ; Tetreault, N. ; Vekris, E. ; Kitaev, V. ; Ozin, G.A. ; Wegener, Martin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Chem., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Abstract :
We present ultrafast two-color pump-probe experiments on silicon inverse opals. A transient blue-shift of the stopgap leads to transmission changes up to a factor of five with relaxation times about 5 ps.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; high-speed optical techniques; nonlinear optics; optical pumping; silicon; switching; Si; silicon inverse opals; transient blue-shift; ultrafast nonlinear optics; ultrafast optical switching; ultrafast two-color pump-probe; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Optical refraction; Optical scattering; Optical variables control; Probes; Refractive index; Silicon; Ultrafast optics; (190.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics; (230.3990) Microstructure devices;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4629088
