Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Ultrafast All-Optical Switching with a Single Quantum Dot

Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon, Arka Majumdar, Ilya Fushman, Jelena Vuckovic A

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations

Abstract

We demonstrate all-optical switching based on a single quantum dot coupled to a photonic crystal cavity. The quantum-dot mediated interaction between the signal and control beams occurs at the single-photon level.

DOI: 10.1364/iqec.2009.ithe1

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