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An Electrochemical Cholesteric Liquid Crystalline Device for Quick and Low-Voltage Color Modulation
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High-speed transparent switch via frequency upconversion
Aaron P VanDevender1, Paul G Kwiat
1Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1110 W Green St., Urbana, IL, 61801 USA. vandvndr@uiuc.edu
Optics Express
|June 18, 2009
Abstract:
We demonstrate a novel all-optical switch based on frequency upconversion. The switch features advantages for telecommunications: it is fast, transparent, frequency-multiplexable and bias-free.
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