Wednesday, June 6, 2012

1206.0930 (S. M. Hendrickson et al.)

All-Optical Switching Demonstration using Two-Photon Absorption and the
Classical Zeno Effect
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S. M. Hendrickson, C. N. Weiler, R. M. Camacho, P. T. Rakich, A. I. Young, M. J. Shaw, T. B. Pittman, J. D. Franson, B. C. Jacobs
Low-contrast all-optical Zeno switching has been demonstrated in a silicon nitride microdisk resonator coupled to a hot atomic vapor. The device is based on the suppression of the field build-up within a microcavity due to non-degenerate two-photon absorption. This experiment used one beam in a resonator and one in free-space due to limitations related to device physics. These results suggest that a similar scheme with both beams resonant in the cavity would correspond to input power levels near 20 nW.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.0930

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