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Polymorphic nanoparticles as all-optical memory elements

Polymorphic nanoparticles as all-optical memory elements
Polymorphic nanoparticles as all-optical memory elements
A nanoparticle undergoing light-induced transformations between structural phases with different optical properties is an inheritably bistable structure and this bistability can be used to create a resonator-free optical memory element, operating at very low power levels. We experimentally demonstrate this memory functionality using a film of gallium nanoparticles, and we present a method for differentially accessing the logic state of the memory using a modulated optical probe beam.
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Soares, B.F.
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MacDonald, K.F.
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Zheludev, Nikolai
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Soares, B.F.
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MacDonald, K.F.
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Soares, B.F., Bashevoy, M.V., Jonsson, F., MacDonald, K.F. and Zheludev, Nikolai (2006) Polymorphic nanoparticles as all-optical memory elements. Optics Express, 14 (22), 10652-10656. (doi:10.1364/OE.14.010652).

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A nanoparticle undergoing light-induced transformations between structural phases with different optical properties is an inheritably bistable structure and this bistability can be used to create a resonator-free optical memory element, operating at very low power levels. We experimentally demonstrate this memory functionality using a film of gallium nanoparticles, and we present a method for differentially accessing the logic state of the memory using a modulated optical probe beam.

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Published date: 30 October 2006
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Local EPrints ID: 43699
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/43699
DOI: doi:10.1364/OE.14.010652
ISSN: 1094-4087
PURE UUID: 73973292-048d-4ca5-af6a-399c66cbaaa6
ORCID for K.F. MacDonald: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3877-2976
ORCID for Nikolai Zheludev: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-6636

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Date deposited: 02 Feb 2007
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:10

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Author: B.F. Soares
Author: M.V. Bashevoy
Author: F. Jonsson
Author: K.F. MacDonald ORCID iD
Author: Nikolai Zheludev ORCID iD

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