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All-optical switches and memories fabricated on a silicon chip using photonic crystal nanocavities

Takasumi Tanabe, Masaya Notomi, Akihiko Shinya, Satoshi Mitsugi, Eiichi Kuramochi

Published Dec 1, 2005• 2 citations
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