All-optical switching of a microcavity repeated at terahertz rates

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Yuce E., CTİSTİS G., CLAUDON J., Dupuy E., Buijs R. D., de Ronde B., ...Daha Fazla

OPTICS LETTERS, cilt.38, sa.3, ss.374-376, 2013 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 38 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2013
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1364/ol.38.000374
  • Dergi Adı: OPTICS LETTERS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.374-376
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

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. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America