All-optical switch consisting of multimode interferometer combined with metamaterials: Device design

Author

Amemiya, Tomohiro ; Shindo, Takahiko ; Takahashi, Daisuke ; Nishiyama, Nobuhiko ; Arai, Shigehisa

Author_Institution

Quantum Nanoelectron. Res. Center, Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2010

fDate

May 31 2010-June 4 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We demonstrated magnetically excited magnetic resonances with negative magnetic permeability in InP-based optical waveguide with an array of gold split-ring resonators (SRRs). In transmission characteristics of the device, an incident-polarization-dependent absorption feature was clearly observed at 1575 nm. The experimental results show that the SRR array interacted with the magnetic field of the propagating light in the device, producing magnetic resonance at optical frequencies.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; gold; indium compounds; light absorption; light interferometers; light transmission; magnetic permeability; magnetic resonance; metamaterials; optical resonators; optical switches; optical waveguides; Au; InP; all optical switch; incident polarization dependent absorption; magnetically excited magnetic resonance; metamaterial; multimode interferometer; negative magnetic permeability; optical waveguide; split ring resonators; transmission characteristics; wavelength 1575 nm; Gold; Magnetic materials; Magnetic resonance; Metamaterials; Optical arrays; Optical interferometry; Optical resonators; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Permeability; III-V semiconductor; Integrated optics; Meta-materials; Waveguide device;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Indium Phosphide & Related Materials (IPRM), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kagawa

ISSN

1092-8669

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5919-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIPRM.2010.5516341

Filename

5516341