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Fabrication And Characterization Of Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides And Cavities
Published on: November 30, 2012
Critical conditions of control light for a silicon-based photonic crystal bistable switching
Chao Li1, Hong Wang, Jun-Fang Wu
1Department of Physics, School of Science, South China University of Technology, Guangdong Engineering Research Center for Semiconductor Lighting, Guangzhou 510640, China. lichao@scut.edu.cn
Abstract:
In this paper, we investigate the critical conditions of control light for a silicon-based photonic crystal bistable switching. By establishing a time-dependent evolution equation, the critical pump power and pump time of the control light are derived, respectively. It is found that with the increase of the frequency detuning of the incident light, the critical power of the control light will rise, while the corresponding critical time will be shortened. It is also revealed that under the same conditions, the critical total power of the multiple-beam control light is less than the one of the single-beam control light. The theoretical predictions show perfect agreement with the simulation results.
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