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Optically tunable microcavity in a planar photonic crystal silicon waveguide buried in oxide
Auteur(s)
Märki, Iwan
Salt, Martin Guy
Herzig, Hans-Peter
Stanley, Ross
Melhaoui, L. El.
Lyan, P.
Fedeli, J. M.
Date de parution
2006
In
Optics Letters, Optical Society of America, 2006/31/4/513-515
Résumé
We present all-optical tuning and switching of a microcavity inside a two-dimensional photonic crystal waveguide. The photonic crystal structure is fabricated in silicon-on-insulator using complementary metal-oxide semiconductor processing techniques based on deep ultraviolet lithography and is completely buried in a silicon dioxide cladding that provides protection from the environment. By focusing a laser onto the microcavity region, both a thermal and a plasma dispersion effect are generated, allowing tuning and fast modulation of the in-plane transmission. By means of the temporal characteristics of the in-plane transmission, we experimentally identify a slower thermal and a fast plasma dispersion effect with modulation bandwidths of the order of several 100 kHz and up to the gigahertz level, respectively.
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http://ol.osa.org/abstract.cfm?id=87881
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