[IEEE 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) - Munich, Germany (2019.6.23-2019.6.27)] 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) - Ultrafast All-Optical Switching in III-V Semiconductor Resonant Nanostructures
DOI:10.1109/cleoe-eqec.2019.8871485
出版年份:2019
更新时间:2025-09-12 10:27:22
摘要:
All-dielectric high-index resonant nanostructures offer plentiful opportunities for tailoring characteristics of scattered radiation. In fact, the low level of ohmic losses at optical frequencies and the presence of pronounced magneto-dipolar modes in scattering spectra of dielectric nanoresonators pave the way to numerous scattering effects that could be employed for many practical applications [1]. To further advance the performance of dielectric nanophotonic devices, it is crucial to make them reconfigurable, i.e. to provide a method to manipulate optical properties of the material that they are made of. The electron-hole injection, carried out by optical means, is a promising solution for this task (Fig. 1A). Direct-gap semiconductors are perfectly suitable for that purpose, because this class of materials retains advantages typical for dielectrics and, at the same time, is defined by smaller bandgap widths, compared to dielectrics. The latter feature significantly decreases a value of the pumping pulse fluence that is required to noticeably change the optical response of a resonant nanostructure. Indeed, it was numerically shown that the change of the trajectory of the probing pulse constituted 20° for an asymmetric dimer comprised of two silicon (Si) spheres of different radii for the energy fluence of the pumping pulse Φ(cid:3020)(cid:3036) = 1.6 mJ cm(cid:2879)(cid:2870) [2]. On the other hand, there is an experimental study of all-optical switching in gallium arsenide (GaAs) metasurface that indicated the change of its reflection coefficient ?(cid:1844) = 0.35 for the fluence Φ(cid:3008)(cid:3028)(cid:3002)(cid:3046) = 0.31 mJ cm(cid:2879)(cid:2870) [3]. Although there are already some numerical results on the light scattering in the asymmetric dimer, it is still urgent to carry out the corresponding experiment. For that purpose, it is important to change the geometry of the system (cylinders instead of spheres) and its material (GaAs in place of Si). The system has an asymmetric scattering profile in the regular regime owing to its asymmetric geometry. The geometry also stipulates the difference in absorption cross-sections of the cylindrical resonators. Because of this difference in absorption, the change of the material’s optical parameters is not equal for the two cylinders. Therefore, under certain conditions, after the pumping of the nanostructure, the scattering diagram becomes symmetric. Our numeric results demonstrate the symmetrization of the indicatrix for the pumping fluence Φ(cid:2869) = 0.9 mJ cm(cid:2879)(cid:2870) (the corresponding change of the probe scattering direction was calculated to be 7°) for the dimer with following geometrical parameters: radii – 85 nm and 90 nm, height – 200 nm, distance between the centers of the disks – 450 nm. The central wavelength of the pulse spectrum was (cid:2019)(cid:2869) = 820 nm. The dimer nanoantenna is an ultrafast optical switch that can be used, for instance, to distribute optical signals between two waveguides in integrated photonic circuits. The design of the switch makes its fabrication compatible with modern technological methods. The all-optical modulation can be observed not only in single asymmetric nanoantennas, but also in phased-array metasurfaces composed of supercells with resonators of the different size. In particular, we considered a metasurface that could control the intensities (i.e. transmission coefficients) in the diffraction orders that are formed after the scattering on the nanostructure. In our experiments, the most pronounced relative change of the transmission coefficient was detected in the first order: ?(cid:1846) (cid:1846) = 9.7% for the fluence of the pumping pulse Φ(cid:2870) = 0.02 mJ cm(cid:2879)(cid:2870) (Fig. 2B). The metasurfaces of that kind can also be used as all-optical switches.
作者:
Viacheslav Snigirev,Alexander Shorokhov,Dmitry Gulkin,Vladimir Bessonov,Irina Soboleva,Andrey Fedyanin