All-Optical Switching in 2-D Photonic Crystal Cavities with Defect Resonances
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2012
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D’Aguanno, G.; Mattiucci, N.; Bloemer, M. J.; All-Optical Switching in 2-D Photonic Crystal Cavities with Defect Resonances; Frontiers in Optics 2012/Laser Science XXVIII OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2012), paper LTh1I.1; https://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?uri=LS-2012-LTh1I.1
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We investigate the field localization in 2-D photonic crystals with defect resonances for all-optical switching applications. These resonances achieve extremely high Q factors ~108 and switching threshold ~W/cm2 for realistic values of the cubic nonlinearity.