Title :
Drastic enhancement of optical non-linearity in InAs quantum dot embedded in photonic crystal waveguide for all-optical switch application
Author :
Nakamura, H. ; Kanamoto, K. ; Nakamura, Y. ; Sugimoto, Y. ; Ikeda, N. ; Tanaka, Y. ; Ohkouchi, S. ; Ishikawa, H. ; Asakawa, K.
Author_Institution :
The Femtosecond Technol. Res. Assoc., Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract :
InAs quantum dots, embedded in a photonic crystal (PC) waveguide, exhibited 13 dB larger extinction ratio in transmittance than that embedded in a conventional waveguide, suggesting ultra-low power operation of the proposed PC-based symmetric-Mach-Zehnder-type all-optical switch.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; indium compounds; nonlinear optics; optical switches; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; semiconductor quantum dots; InAs; InAs quantum dot; Mach-Zehnder-type all-optical switch; all-optical switch; extinction ratio; optical nonlinearity; photonic crystal waveguide;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
