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Published February 22, 2008 | Version Published
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Ultrafast photonic crystal nanocavity lasers and, optical switches

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  • 1. ROR icon Stanford University
  • 2. ROR icon Boston University

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Abstract

We have recently demonstrated an ultrafast photonic crystal laser and cavity coupled laser array with modulation rates of 1THz at room temperature, a 20 GHz optical modulator with activation energies of 60 fJ and a quantum dot photonic crystal laser with large signal modulation rates of 30GHz. These devices are enabled by the enhanced light-matter interaction in photonic crystals, and serve as the building blocks of on-optical information processing circuits.

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© 2008 SPIE. This work has been supported by the MARCO IFC Center, NSF Grants ECS-0424080 and ECS-0421483. D.E. was supported by the NDSEG and NSF fellowships, and I.F. by the NDSEG fellowship. We also thank Pierre Petroff and Nick Stoltz of UC Santa Barbara, as well as Yoshihisa Yamamoto and Bingyang Zhang of Stanford University, for quantum dot growth.

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Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation (MARCO)
NSF
ECS-0424080
NSF
ECS-0421483
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

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Proceedings of SPIE
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6889