Photonic crystal and quantum dot technologies for all-optical switch and logic device
Photonic crystal and quantum dot technologies for all-optical switch and logic device
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DOI:
10.1088/1367-2630/8/9/208
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发表时间:
2006-09-22
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3.3
通讯作者:
Baets, Roel
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作者:
Asakawa, Kiyoshi;Sugimoto, Yoshimasa;Baets, Roel
Nano-photonic technologies of GaAs-based two-dimensional photonic crystal (2DPC) slab waveguides (WGs) and InAs-based quantum dots (QDs) are reviewed for a symmetrical Mach - Zehnder (SMZ) type, ultra-small and ultra-fast all-optical switch (PC-SMZ) and logic device. As the first phase, ultra-fast (similar to ps) and ultra-low energy (similar to 100 fJ) switching has been demonstrated using a chip 600 mu m x 300 mu m in size. The second phase is to create a PC-SMZ-based ultra-fast photonic logic switch with a latch function for a future ultra-fast photonic digital processor. One of the priority subjects is to establish a new design method, i.e., topology optimization (TO) method of 2DPC-WGs with wide/flat bandwidth, high transmittance and low reflectivity. Another one is to develop selective-area-grown, high-density and highly uniform InAs QDs with large optical nonlinearity (ONL) by using a metal-mask (MM) molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth method. Recent results regarding these two subjects encourage us to reach the final goal.