Ultrafast modulation of optical metamaterials

Ultrafast control of third-order optical nonlinearities in fishnet metamaterials

Nonlinear photonic nanostructures that allow efficient all-optical switching are considered to be a prospective platform for novel building blocks in photonics. We performed time-resolved measurements of the photoinduced transient third-order nonlinear optical response of a fishnet metamaterial. The mutual influence of two non-collinear pulses exciting the magnetic resonance of the metamaterial...

Ultralow-power and ultrafast all-optical tunable plasmon-induced transparency in metamaterials at optical communication range

Actively all-optical tunable plasmon-induced transparency in metamaterials paves the way for achieving ultrahigh-speed quantum information processing chips. Unfortunately, up to now, very small experimental progress has been made for all-optical tunable plasmon-induced transparency in metamaterials in the visible and near-infrared range because of small third-order optical nonlinearity of conve...

Ultrafast all-optical switching via coherent modulation of metamaterial absorption

Optical Remoting of Ultrafast Charge Packets Using Self-Linearized Modulation

Sensitive analog systems in mixed-signal VLSI circuits may be vulnerable to digital noise. We demonstrate a possible solution by optically remoting charge packets with a multiplequantum-well self-electrooptic effect device in a novel self-linearized mode. c © 2000 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (230.4110) Modulators; (200.4650) Optical interconnects In such mixed-signal VLSI electronic ...

Ultrafast all-optical modulation on a silicon chip.

We experimentally demonstrate ultrafast all-optical modulation using a micrometer-sized silicon photonic integrated device. The device transmission is strongly modulated by photoexcited carriers generated by low-energy pump pulses. A p-i-n junction is integrated on the structure to permit control of the generated carrier lifetimes. When the junction is reverse biased, carriers are extracted fro...