TY - JOUR
T1 - Nonlinear and adiabatic control of high-Q photonic crystal nanocavities
AU - Notomi, M.
AU - Tanabe, T.
AU - Shinya, A.
AU - Kuramochi, E.
AU - Taniyama, H.
AU - Mitsugi, S.
AU - Morita, M.
PY - 2007/12/24
Y1 - 2007/12/24
N2 - This article overviews our recent studies of ultrahigh-Q and ultrasmall photonic-crystal cavities, and their applications to nonlinear optical processing and novel adiabatic control of light. First, we show our latest achievements of ultrahigh-Q photonic-crystal nanocavities, and present extreme slow-light demonstration. Next, we show all-optical bistable switching and memory operations based on enhanced optical nonlinearity in these nanocavities with extremely low power, and discuss their applicability for realizing chip-scale all-optical logic, such as flip-flop. Finally, we introduce adiabatic tuning of high-Q nanocavities, which leads to novel wavelength conversion and another type of optical memories.
AB - This article overviews our recent studies of ultrahigh-Q and ultrasmall photonic-crystal cavities, and their applications to nonlinear optical processing and novel adiabatic control of light. First, we show our latest achievements of ultrahigh-Q photonic-crystal nanocavities, and present extreme slow-light demonstration. Next, we show all-optical bistable switching and memory operations based on enhanced optical nonlinearity in these nanocavities with extremely low power, and discuss their applicability for realizing chip-scale all-optical logic, such as flip-flop. Finally, we introduce adiabatic tuning of high-Q nanocavities, which leads to novel wavelength conversion and another type of optical memories.
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U2 - 10.1364/OE.15.017458
DO - 10.1364/OE.15.017458
M3 - Article
C2 - 19551040
AN - SCOPUS:37549048260
SN - 1094-4087
VL - 15
SP - 17458
EP - 17481
JO - Optics Express
JF - Optics Express
IS - 26
ER -