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Enhancement of a nano cavity lifetime by induced slow light and nonlinear dispersions

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

Published Nov 19, 2012• 5 citations

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Abstract

We start from a 2D photonic crystal nanocavity with moderate Q-factor and dynamically increase it by two order of magnitude by the joint action of coherent population oscillations and nonlinear refractive index.

DOI: 10.1364/oe.20.027403

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