Dynamical ultrafast all-optical switching of planar GaAs/AlAs photonic microcavities

Details Dynamical ultrafast all-optical switching of planar GaAs/AlAs photonic microcavities Dynamical ultrafast all-optical switching of planar GaAs/AlAs photonic microcavities

2007-06-15

arxiv.org/abs/0706.2385v2

Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 111103 (2007)

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Optics

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Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2779106

The authors study the ultrafast switching-on and -off of planar GaAs/AlAs microcavities. Up to 0.8% refractive index changes are achieved by optically exciting free carriers at 1720 nm and a pulse energy of 1.8 micro Joules. The cavity resonance is dynamically tracked by measuring reflectivity versus time delay with tunable laser pulses, and is found to shift by as much as 3.3 linewidths within a few picoseconds. The switching-off occurs with a decay time of around 50 ps. The authors derive the dynamic behavior of the carrier density and of the complex refractive index. They propose that the inferred 10 GHz switching rate may be tenfold improved by optimized sample growth.

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