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Ultrafast adiabatic manipulation of slow light in a photonic crystal

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Date
27/04/2010
Author
Kampfrath, T.
Beggs, Daryl Matthew
White, Tom P
Melloni, A.
Krauss, Thomas Fraser
Kuipers, L.
Funder
EPSRC
Grant ID
EP/F001622/1
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QC Physics
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Abstract
We demonstrate by experiment and theory that a light pulse propagating through a Si-based photonic-crystal waveguide is adiabatically blueshifted when the refractive index of the Si is reduced on a femtosecond time scale. Thanks to the use of slow-light modes, we are able to shift a 1.3-ps pulse at telecom frequencies by 0.3 THz with an efficiency as high as 80% in a waveguide as short as 19 mu m. An analytic theory reproduces the experimental data excellently, which shows that adiabatic dynamics are possible even on the femtosecond time scale as long as the external stimulus conserves the spatial symmetry of the system.
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Kampfrath , T , Beggs , D M , White , T P , Melloni , A , Krauss , T F & Kuipers , L 2010 , ' Ultrafast adiabatic manipulation of slow light in a photonic crystal ' , Physical Review. A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics , vol. 81 , no. 4 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.81.043837
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Physical Review. A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.81.043837
ISSN
1050-2947
Type
Journal article
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©2010 The American Physical Society
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2913

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