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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR)

Verification of principle for nano-meter size optical near-field switch by using CuCl quantum cubes

Tadashi Kawazoe, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Jaehyun Lim, Yoshihito Narita, Motoichi Ohtsu

Published Nov 13, 2002• 4 citations
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Abstract

We propose a near-field optical nano-switch. The switching mechanism is based on the near-field energy transfer among sub-levels in quantum cubes. To inspect the switching, we observed the size-selected spatial distribution of CuCl quantum cubes.
DOI
10.1109/cleopr.2001.967792

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