All-optical switching of a microcavity repeated at terahertz clock rates

Emre Yuce; Georgios Ctistis; Julien Claudon; Emmanuel Dupuy; Robin D. Buijs; Bob De Ronde; Allard P. Mosk; Jean Michel Gerard; Willem L. Vos

doi:10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6801028

All-optical switching of a microcavity repeated at terahertz clock rates

Emre Yuce, Georgios Ctistis, Julien Claudon, Emmanuel Dupuy, Robin D. Buijs, Bob De Ronde, Allard P. Mosk, Jean Michel Gerard, Willem L. Vos

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Abstract

Semiconductor microcavities have proven to be essential to strongly confine light [1], thereby enhancing the interaction between light and matter to the point of manipulating quantum states of matter. To achieve dynamic control of these processes, one must approach their characteristic time scales in the picosecond range, corresponding to THz modulation rates [2,3]. While all-optical switching is essential as it allows sub-picosecond reversible control of the refractive index [4,5], the popular optical free carrier excitation mechanisms are too slow to repeatedly switch at THz rates.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6801028
Publication status	Published - 12 May 2013
Event	2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and International Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-IQEC 2013 - Munich, Germany Duration: 12 May 2013 → 16 May 2013

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Conference	2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and International Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-IQEC 2013
Abbreviated title	CLEO/Europe-IQEC 2013
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Munich
Period	12/05/13 → 16/05/13

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Yuce, E., Ctistis, G., Claudon, J., Dupuy, E., Buijs, R. D., De Ronde, B., Mosk, A. P., Gerard, J. M., & Vos, W. L. (2013). All-optical switching of a microcavity repeated at terahertz clock rates. Paper presented at 2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and International Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-IQEC 2013, Munich, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6801028

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