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4 April 2005 New windows of opportunity for all-optical information processing: spatial solitons, EIT in microcavities, etc.
Marin Solja-i, Elefterios Lidorikis, John D. Joannopoulos, Lene Vestergaard Hau, Mordechai Segev, Kenneth Steiglitz, Charalambos Anastassiou
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Abstract
We present two potentially interesting new venues in all-optical signal processing. First, we demonstrate experimentally that collisions between vector (Manakov-like) solitons involve energy exchange; this feature could be explored for all-optical signal processing. Second, our detailed theoretical studies show how inserting materials that support electro-magnetically induced transparency into microcavities enables design of microcavities with extraordinarily long lifetimes, and enables all-optical signal processing at single photon power levels.
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Marin Solja-i, Elefterios Lidorikis, John D. Joannopoulos, Lene Vestergaard Hau, Mordechai Segev, Kenneth Steiglitz, and Charalambos Anastassiou "New windows of opportunity for all-optical information processing: spatial solitons, EIT in microcavities, etc.", Proc. SPIE 5735, Advanced Optical and Quantum Memories and Computing II, (4 April 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.601669
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KEYWORDS
Solitons

Optical microcavities

Spatial solitons

Chemical species

Dispersion

Photonic crystals

Transparency

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