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All-optical Switching in Photonic Structures with Liquid-crystal Defects

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2006

Authors

Pinkevych, Igor
Miroshnichenko, Andrey
Kivshar, Yuri

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Optical Society of America

Abstract

We show that tunable nonlinearity of nematics can be employed for all-optical operations in photonic structures. We show numerically that the light-induced Freedericksz transition can lead to sharp switching and diode operation.

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Keywords: Crystal defects; Electron optics; Light; Optical switches; Quantum electronics; All-optical switching; Freedericksz transitions; Nematics; Non linearities; Optical-; Photonic structures; Lasers

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/21804

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ANU Research Publications

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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Quantum Electronics and Laser Science: Conference on Photonic Applications, Systems and Technologies: Technical Digest CD-ROM

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Conference paper

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DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628506

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2037-12-31

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