Journal
NANOPHOTONICS
Volume 10, Issue 10, Pages 2617-2623Publisher
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2021-0066
Keywords
2D materials; all-optical switch; MXene Nb2C; pump-probe spectroscopy
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Funding
- State Key Research Development Program of China [2019YFB2203503]
- National Natural Science Fund [61435010, 61575089, 61705140, 62005177]
- Foundation and Applied Foundation Research Fund of Guangdong Province [2019A1515111060]
- Postdoctoral Research Foundation of China [2020M672786]
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By utilizing transition metal carbide (Nb2C), a method for ultrafast all-optical switching with very small response time and switching energy is proposed using the pump-probe approach. This all-optical switching approach based on 2D materials has the potential to achieve high-performance all-optical devices and play a role in high-speed photonics processing.
Ultrafast all-optical switches have attracted considerable attention for breaking through the speed limitation of electric devices. However, ultrafast and high-efficiency all-optical switches based on two-dimensional (2D) materials can be achieved due to their strong nonlinear optical response and ultrafast carrier dynamic. For this reason, we propose the pump-probe method to achieve an ultrafast optical switcher with a response time of 192 fs and a switching energy of 800 nJ by using transition metal carbide (Nb2C). The response time and switching energy are far smaller than that of the all-optical device based on the saturable absorption effect of 2D materials. It is believed that the Nb2C-based all-optical switch provides a novel idea to achieve a high-performance all-optical device and has the potential for application in high-speed photonics processing.
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