Electro-optic effect exaltation on lithium niobate photonic crystals due to slow photons

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作者：

Roussey, M.

Bernal, M. -P.

Courjal, N.

Van Labeke, D.

Baida, F. I.

Salut, R.

机构：

[1] Inst FEMTO ST, Dept LOPMD, UMR 6174, F-25030 Besancon, France

[2] Inst FEMTO ST, Cent Technol MIMENTO, UMR 6174, F-25030 Besancon, France

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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS | 2006年 / 89卷 / 24期

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10.1063/1.2402946

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O59 [应用物理学];

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摘要：

The authors demonstrate how slow group velocities that are easily attainable at the band edge of photonic crystals can drastically enhance the electro-optical effect on tunable photonic crystal components. This property opens up the possibility of microsized nonlinear devices with low power requirement. In this letter we show how these possibilities for enhancement of nonlinear effects have been used to fabricate a 13x13 mu m(2) sized lithium niobate photonic crystal intensity modulator that shows an enhanced electro-optic effect 312 times bigger than the one predicted by the classical Pockels effect for an equivalent device in bulk material. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.

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