Latin America Optics and Photonics Conference

Coherent and Dynamic Nonlinear Interactions in 2D Photonic Crystal nanocavities

P. Grinberg, Maia Brunstein, Kamel Bencheikh, Alejandro M. Yacomotti, Isabelle Sagnes, Fabrice Raineri, Yannick Dumeige, Juan Ariel Levenson

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations

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Abstract

Coupling light resonantly into a nanocavity mode is a rather difficult task, when accomplished, new avenues are open to efficiently produce nonlinear coherent interactions. We discuss recent results on optical bistability, excitability and slow light in semiconductor L3 Photonic Crystal nanocavities.

DOI: 10.1364/laop.2012.ls3a.4

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