An all-optical, non-volatile, bidirectional, phase-change meta-switch

• Main Authors: Gholipour, Behrad, Zhang, Jianfa, MacDonald, Kevin F., Hewak, Daniel W., Zheludev, Nikolay I.
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Physics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98677; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17424
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Non-volatile, bidirectional, all-optical switching in a phase-change metamaterial delivers high-contrast transmission and reflection modulation at near- to mid-infrared wavelengths in device structures down to ≈1/27 of a wavelength thick.