Micro-nano-structure enhanced third-order optical nonlinearity and its development in all-optical tunable nonlinear devices

Abstract

Abstract:

With the progress of micro-nano photonics, it has become the forefront of international research to tune optics in nano-scale. How to design smaller, faster and stronger nano-photonic devices, which can realize all-optical integration, has become the new technology, competition and hot spots. Of which the photonic crystal and surface plasmon structures, represented by the micro-nano photonics research and applications in the international community, has been widely appreciated and prosperity. And its micro-nano structure of nonlinear optics, all-optical control and devices applied research has been focused especially. This paper summarizes the micro-nano structure of the enhanced optical nonlinearity and nonlinear all-optical control research.

Key words: nonlinear optics, surface plasmons, micro-nano optics and photonics, all-optical control

CLC Number:

O437

YI Ming-fang, WANG Pei, WANG Xiao-lei, WEN Xiao-lei,LU Yong-hua. Micro-nano-structure enhanced third-order optical nonlinearity and its development in all-optical tunable nonlinear devices[J]. J4, 2010, 27(6): 641-649.

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