An ultrafast reconfigurable nanophotonic switch using wavefront shaping of light in a nonlinear nanomaterial

Tom Strudley; Roman Bruck; Ben Mills; Otto L Muskens

doi:10.1038/lsa.2014.88

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An ultrafast reconfigurable nanophotonic switch using wavefront shaping of light in a nonlinear nanomaterial

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- An ultrafast reconfigurable nanophotonic switch using wavefront shaping of light in a nonlinear nanomaterial
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 3, Issue 4, (2014)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
  2.Optoelectronics Research Centre, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
- Author bio：
  
  Dr OL Muskens, Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UKE-mail: o.muskens@soton.ac.uk
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2014.88
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- Published：2014-12，
  
  Published Online：26 September 2014，
  
  Received：04 May 2014，
  
  Revised：15 July 2014，
  
  Accepted：17 July 2014
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Strudley, T. et al. An ultrafast reconfigurable nanophotonic switch using wavefront shaping of light in a nonlinear nanomaterial. Light: Science & Applications, 3, e207 (2014).
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Strudley, T. et al. An ultrafast reconfigurable nanophotonic switch using wavefront shaping of light in a nonlinear nanomaterial. Light: Science & Applications, 3, e207 (2014). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2014.88.

摘要

Abstract

We demonstrate a new concept for reconfigurable nanophotonic devices exploiting ultrafast nonlinear control of shaped wavefronts in a multimode nanomaterial consisting of semiconductor nanowires. Femtosecond pulsed laser excitation of the nanowire mat is shown to provide an efficient nonlinear mechanism to control both destructive and constructive interference in a shaped wavefront. Modulations of up to 63% are induced by optical pumping

due to a combination of multimode dephasing and induced transient absorption. We show that part of the nonlinear phase dynamics can be inverted to provide a dynamical revival of the wavefront into an optimized spot with up to 18% increase of the peak to background ratio caused by pulsed laser excitation. The concepts of multimode nonlinear switching demonstrated here are generally extendable to other photonic and plasmonic systems and enable new avenues for ultrafast and reconfigurable nanophotonic devices.

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nanophotonicsnanowiresnonlinear opticsreconfigurableultrafastwavefront shaping

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