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NATURE PHOTONICS
Volume 2, Issue 3, Pages 185-189Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2007.299
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Photonic crystals, materials with periodic dielectric structures, are able to control the propagation states of photons owing to the so- called photonic- bandgap effect(1). Nonlinear photonic crystals, whose refractive- index distribution can be tuned optically, have been used to demonstrate all- optical switching(2). However, a high pump intensity is usually required because the nonlinear optical coefficient of conventional materials is relatively small(3). Here we report ultrafast and low- power photonic- crystal all- optical switching based on strong optical nonlinearity enhancement due to excited- state interelectron transfer. Compared with the case without nonlinearity enhancement, the switching operation power is reduced by four orders of magnitude while the ultrafast response time, of the order of a picosecond, is maintained. This provides a strategy for constructing photonic materials with large nonlinearity and studying ultrafast low- power integrated photonic devices.
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