Use of Fano resonances for bistable optical transfer through photonic crystal films

Virginie Lousse and Jean Pol Vigneron
Phys. Rev. B 69, 155106 – Published 14 April 2004
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Abstract

Bistable or multistable transmissions are classically the result of the introduction of nonlinear layers into a resonant Fabry-Perot cavity. A single inhomogeneous film, with a periodic lateral structure, can also give rise to a bistable transmission for significant intensity ranges, due to Fano resonances, a strong frequency-dependent transparency variation related to the transfer via guided modes. A self-consistent simulation tool which allows for the computation of multivalued transmission is developed and the peculiar shape of the hysteresis loops associated with Fano resonances is studied.

  • Received 26 November 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.69.155106

©2004 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Virginie Lousse1,2,* and Jean Pol Vigneron1

  • 1Laboratoire de Physique du Solide, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, 61 rue de Bruxelles, B-5000 Namur, Belgium
  • 2Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA

  • *Electronic address: virginie.lousse@stanford.edu

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Vol. 69, Iss. 15 — 15 April 2004

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