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Optical bistability on a silicon chip

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Abstract

We demonstrate, for the first time to our knowledge, optical bistability on a highly integrated silicon device, using a 5µm-radius ring resonator. The strong light-confinement nature of the resonator induces nonlinear optical response with low pump power. We show that the optical bistability allows all-optical functionalities, such as switching and memory with microsecond time response and a modulation depth of 10 dB, driven by pump power as low as 45 µW. Silicon optical bistability relies on a fast thermal nonlinear optical effect presenting a 500-kHz modulation bandwidth.

© 2004 Optical Society of America

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