Tuneable metamaterials driven by light
Tuneable metamaterials driven by light
All-optical data processing fundamentally relies on giant optical nonlinearities to enable high-contrast modulation of light with light at low power levels in highly integrated systems with short interaction lengths. Here we demonstrate optically driven mechanically reconfigurable nanostructures exhibiting exceptionally large optical nonlinearities. Nano-opto-mechanical nonlinear materials that are 7 orders of magnitude more nonlinear than GaAs achieve several percent intensity modulation at 2 mW power with an interaction length of less than 1/10 of a wavelength.
Ou, J-Y.
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Plum, E.
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Zheludev, N.I.
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June 2015
Ou, J-Y.
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Plum, E.
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Zheludev, N.I.
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Ou, J-Y., Plum, E. and Zheludev, N.I.
(2015)
Tuneable metamaterials driven by light.
CLEO/Europe - EQEC, Munich, Munich, Germany.
21 - 25 Jun 2015.
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Abstract
All-optical data processing fundamentally relies on giant optical nonlinearities to enable high-contrast modulation of light with light at low power levels in highly integrated systems with short interaction lengths. Here we demonstrate optically driven mechanically reconfigurable nanostructures exhibiting exceptionally large optical nonlinearities. Nano-opto-mechanical nonlinear materials that are 7 orders of magnitude more nonlinear than GaAs achieve several percent intensity modulation at 2 mW power with an interaction length of less than 1/10 of a wavelength.
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Accepted/In Press date: 23 March 2015
Published date: June 2015
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CLEO/Europe - EQEC, Munich, Munich, Germany, 2015-06-21 - 2015-06-25
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Optoelectronics Research Centre
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Local EPrints ID: 379160
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/379160
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J-Y. Ou
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E. Plum
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N.I. Zheludev
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