Ultimate fast optical switching of a planar microcavity in the telecom wavelength range

Georgios Ctistis; E. Yuce; A. Hartsuiker; Julien Claudon; Maela Bazin; Jean-Michel Gérard; Willem L. Vos

doi:10.1063/1.3580615

Ultimate fast optical switching of a planar microcavity in the telecom wavelength range

Georgios Ctistis, E. Yuce, A. Hartsuiker, Julien Claudon, Maela Bazin, Jean-Michel Gérard, Willem L. Vos

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We have studied a GaAs–AlAs planar microcavity with a resonance near 1300 nm in the telecom range by ultrafast pump-probe reflectivity. By the judicious choice of pump frequency, we observe an ultimate fast and reversible decrease in the resonance frequency by more than half a linewidth due to the instantaneous electronic Kerr effect. The switch-on and switch-off of the cavity is only limited by the cavity storage time of τcav = 0.3 ps and not by intrinsic material parameters. Our results pave the way to supraterahertz switching rates for on-chip data modulation and real-time cavity quantum electrodynamics.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	161114-1-161114-3
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied physics letters
Volume	98
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3580615
Publication status	Published - 2011

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