Optical bistability in semiconductor periodic structures

Enhancement of Photonic Crystal All-Optical Diode Efficiency with a Subwavelength Layer

“…In last two decades, due to special electromagnetic performance and potential applications of the PCs, more attentions are attracted to design the devices capable to control the photons [36]. Optical bistability (OB) is one of the important ways to manipulating of photon's transportations and can be used to design all--optical switching [7,8]. OB can be induced by dynamic shifting of the band edge or resonant modes [9,10].…”

Impact of absorption mechanisms on Kerr-nonlinear resonator behavior

“…[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] In addition, they also show features which cannot be implemented with plain waveguides, such as all-optical limiting, 1,9 all-optical switching, and bistability. 1,[10][11][12][13][14][15] This enhancement of the nonlinearity, however, happens at the cost of reduction of the signal bandwidth, which typically leads to a trade-off situation. 1,2 In practice, however, resonant structures such as ring resonators and photonic crystal resonators are much more critical to fabricate than simple waveguides and therefore suffer from additional loss mechanisms such as radiation and scattering loss.…”

Design of all-optical nonlinear functionalities based on resonators

“…It has been shown that these components exhibit large improvements for the purpose of Kerrnonlinear phase shifting [1]- [5]. In addition, they also show features which cannot be implemented with plain waveguides, like all-optical limiting [6], all-optical switching, and bistability [7]- [12].…”