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Optical bistability on a silicon chip
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We demonstrate, for the first time to our knowledge, optical bistability on a highly integrated silicon device, using a 5-microm-radius ring resonator. The strong light-confinement nature of the resonator induces nonlinear optical response with low pump power. We show that the optical bistability allows all-optical functionalities, such as switching and memory with microsecond time response and a modulation depth of 10 dB, driven by pump power as low as 45 microW. Silicon optical bistability relies on a fast thermal nonlinear optical effect presenting a 500-kHz modulation bandwidth.
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- Authors
- Almeida, V. R., & Lipson, M.
- Venue
- Optics Letters
- Publisher
- Optica Publishing Group
- Published
- 2004-10-15
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 20
- Pages
- 2387
- ISSN
- 0146-9592 (ISSN-L)
- 1539-4794
- OpenAlex
- W2152966766
- Cited by
- 419
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 12.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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