Microwatt volatile optical bistability via nanomechanical nonlinearity

• Main Authors: Papas, Dimitrios, Ou, Jun-Yu, Plum, Eric, Zheludev, Nikolay I.
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Science::Physics; Metamaterials; Nanomechanics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/169667
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Metastable optically controlled devices (optical flip-flops) are needed in data storage, signal processing, and displays. Although nonvolatile memory relying on phase transitions in chalcogenide glasses has been widely used for optical data storage, beyond that, weak optical nonlinearities have hind...