Design of an ultracompact low-power all-optical modulator by means of dispersion engineered slow light regime in a photonic crystal Mach-Zehnder interferometer.
Appl Opt
; 51(14): 2687-92, 2012 May 10.
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We present the design procedure for an ultracompact low-power all-optical modulator based on a dispersion-engineered slow-light regime in a photonic crystal Mach-Zehnder interferometer (PhC MZI), selectively infiltrated by nonlinear optical fluids. The dispersionless slow-light regime enhancing the nonlinearities enabled a 22 µm long PhC MZI to operate as a modulator with an input power as low as 3 mW/µm. Simulations reveal that the switching threshold can be controlled by varying the optofluidic infiltration.
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