Ultrafast all-optical modulation in GaAs photonic crystal cavities
2009
We demonstrate all-optical modulation based on ultrafast optical carrier injection in a GaAs photonic crystal cavity using a degenerate pump-probe technique. The observations agree well with a coupled-mode model incorporating all relevant nonlinearities. The low switching energy (∼120 fJ), small energy absorption (∼10 fJ), fast on-off response (∼15 ps), limited only by carrier lifetime, and a minimum 10 dB modulation depth suggest practical all-optical switching applications at high repetition rates.
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