Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

Sub-micron all-optical memory and large scale integration in photonic crystals

Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Hatice Altug, Jelena Vuckovic A, Shanhui Fan

Published Jan 25, 2006• 1 citation

Abstract

We demonstrate ultra-high speed, low-power and digital all-optical memory action in photonic nanostructures. We show how large-scale on-chip integration of all-optical devices can be achieved without any optical isolators, even in the presence of reflections

DOI: 10.1109/cleoe.2005.1568364

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