All-optical switching of a microcavity repeated at terahertz rates

Emre Yüce; Georgios Ctistis; Julien Claudon; Emmanuel Dupuy; Robin D. Buijs; Bob de Ronde; Allard P. Mosk; Jean-Michel Gérard; Willem L. Vos

doi:10.1364/OL.38.000374

All-optical switching of a microcavity repeated at terahertz rates

Emre Yüce, Georgios Ctistis, Julien Claudon, Emmanuel Dupuy, Robin D. Buijs, Bob de Ronde, Allard P. Mosk, Jean-Michel Gérard, Willem L. Vos

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We have repeatedly and reproducibly switched a GaAs-AlAs planar microcavity operating in the “original” telecom band by exploiting the virtually instantaneous electronic Kerr effect. We achieve repetition times as fast as 300 fs, thereby breaking the terahertz modulation barrier. The rate of the switching in our experiments is only determined by optics and not by material-related relaxation. Our results offer opportunities for fundamental studies of cavity quantum electrodynamics and optical information processing in the subpicosecond time scale.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	374-376
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics letters
Volume	38
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.38.000374
Publication status	Published - 2013

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