All-optical bistable band-edge Bloch modes in a two-dimensional photonic crystal

Yacomotti, A. M.; Raineri, Fabrice; Vecchi, G.; Monnier, P.; Raj, R.; Levenson, Ariel; Bakir, Badhise Ben; Seassal, Christian; Letartre, Xavier; Viktorovitch, Pierre; Cioccio, L. Di; Fédéli, Jean Marc

doi:10.1063/1.2207842

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“…This means that the field distribution of the hybrid mode is principally confined within the PC membrane (or that it is reduced to its waveguided component) and its resonant wavelength is locked to that of the plain PC membrane; therefore, tuning is made possible by the sole action on the latter (for example by the modulation of the optical index of the membrane). The only useful action of the Bragg reflector is to result in an increased factor of the resonance (multiplied by the amount 1 1 RBragg ): this particular configuration has been successfully exploited for the production of record low threshold microlasers and optical bistable devices [32,33].…”

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3D harnessing of light with 2.5D photonic crystals

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Laser & Photonics Reviews

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It is emphasized that two-dimensional photonic crystals (2D PC) have not only a great potential for the development of 2D nanophotonics in the inplane waveguided configuration, but that they may also open the way to other brilliant developments, with an extension to out-of-plane operation, along a 2.5D nanophotonics approach. In this 2.5D approach, a 1D-2D high index contrast lateral structuration is combined with a 1D high index contrast vertical structuration, using multilayer membrane stacks including 1D-2D photonic crystal membranes, thus resulting in so-called 2.5D PC. As a specific illustration of recent achievements along this approach, new families of VCSEL structures are presented.Examples of 2.5D photonic structures. a) A monolithic version, where a vertical stack of III-V semiconductor micro-structured membranes are suspended by surface micromachining. b) A heterogeneous version, where vertical integration of active and passive micro-structured membranes is achieved by bonding technologies.

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3D harnessing of light with 2.5D photonic crystals

Viktorovitch

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Boutami

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“…[13]). As a result, light can be coupled resonantly into this low group velocity Bloch mode when it is incident normally to the PC surface.…”

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“…In a recent work [13], we demonstrated bistable operation as 4 -mW-peak power (5 m diameter beam waist), 200-ns-width pulses were injected at the blue side of the resonance. Under these conditions, hysteresis cycles are shown for two normalized detunings, in ÿ lin = lin =2 ÿ5:65 and ÿ5:9, in Fig.…”

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Fast Thermo-Optical Excitability in a Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal

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We experimentally demonstrate excitability in a semiconductor two-dimensional photonic crystal. Excitability is a nonlinear dynamical mechanism underlying pulselike responses to small perturbations in systems possessing one stable state. We show that a band-edge photonic crystal resonator exhibits class II excitability, resulting from the nonlinear coupling between the high-Q optical mode, the charge-carrier density, and the fast (sub-micros) thermal dynamics. In this context, the critical slowing down of the electro-optical dynamics close to the excitable threshold can delay the optical response by an amount comparable to the duration of the output pulse (5 ns). The latter results from a short thermal dynamical excursion along a high local intensity manifold of the phase space.

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“…2. All-optical switching in nonlinear photonic crystals based on optical bistability has been studied theoretically [64,70,[72][73][74][75][76][77]. A great advantage for photonic crystal cavity is that a high quality (Q) factor nanocavity can be designed at will and realized experimentally, and this can greatly lower the input light power level that is sufficient to ignite considerable optical bistability.…”

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Ultrafast optical switching in Kerr nonlinear photonic crystals

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Nonlinear photonic crystals made from polystyrene materials that have Kerr nonlinearity can exhibit ultrafast optical switching when the samples are pumped by ultrashort optical pulses with high intensity due to the change of the refractive index of polystyrene and subsequent shift of the band gap edge or defect state resonant frequency. Polystyrene has a large Kerr nonlinear susceptibility and almost instantaneous response to pump light, making it suitable for the realization of ultrafast optical switching with a response time as short as a few femtoseconds. In this paper, we review our experimental progress on the continual improvement of all-optical switching speed in two-dimensional and three-dimensional polystyrene nonlinear photonic crystals in the past years. Several relevant issues are discussed and analyzed, including different mechanisms for all-optical switching, preparation of nonlinear photonic crystal samples by means of microfabrication and self-assembly techniques, characterization of optical switching performance by means of femtosecond pump-probe technique, and different ways to lower the pump power of optical switching to facilitate practical applications in optical information processing. Finally, a brief summary and a perspective of future work are provided.

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All-optical bistable band-edge Bloch modes in a two-dimensional photonic crystal

Cited by 58 publications

References 15 publications

3D harnessing of light with 2.5D photonic crystals

3D harnessing of light with 2.5D photonic crystals

Fast Thermo-Optical Excitability in a Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal

Ultrafast optical switching in Kerr nonlinear photonic crystals

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