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Proceedings of the 2012 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications

2012

Session Number:B2L-A

Session:

Number:356

Dynamic control of photonic crystal nanocavities for photon manipulation

Yoshinori Tanaka,  Takashi Asano,  Susumu Noda,  

pp.356-359

Publication Date:

Online ISSN:2188-5079

DOI:10.15248/proc.1.356

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Photonic crystal nanocavities can confine photons for long time (∼ns) into a tiny region and thus it is expected to be applied to various fields including slowing and/or stopping of light and quantum-information processing. In this talk, we present the demonstration of photon manipulations by dynamic control of the photonic crystal nanocavities, which is induced by ultrafast non-linear optical responses.

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