TY - GEN
T1 - Loss saturation in dispersion-engineered slow light waveguides
AU - White, Thomas P.
AU - Sukhorukov, Andrey A.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Enhanced light-matter interactions in slow light (SL) waveguides present new opportunities for tunable delays, switching, and monitoring of optical pulses in compact photonic structures [1]. Dispersion engineered waveguides in photonic crystals (PhC) and plasmonic structures enable SL regimes with reduced group-velocity dispersion (GVD) away from photonic band edges. Light can be efficiently coupled into such SL waveguides [2], even in the extreme case approaching frozen light regime at zero group velocity [3]. Material loss is also enhanced by SL as was shown for strongly band-edge SL with strong GVD [4, 5], and in this work we reveal unique effects of loss in dispersion-engineered SL waveguides with zero GVD.
AB - Enhanced light-matter interactions in slow light (SL) waveguides present new opportunities for tunable delays, switching, and monitoring of optical pulses in compact photonic structures [1]. Dispersion engineered waveguides in photonic crystals (PhC) and plasmonic structures enable SL regimes with reduced group-velocity dispersion (GVD) away from photonic band edges. Light can be efficiently coupled into such SL waveguides [2], even in the extreme case approaching frozen light regime at zero group velocity [3]. Material loss is also enhanced by SL as was shown for strongly band-edge SL with strong GVD [4, 5], and in this work we reveal unique effects of loss in dispersion-engineered SL waveguides with zero GVD.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80052298836&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942649
DO - 10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942649
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781457705335
T3 - 2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO EUROPE/EQEC 2011
BT - 2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO EUROPE/EQEC 2011
T2 - 2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO EUROPE/EQEC 2011
Y2 - 22 May 2011 through 26 May 2011
ER -