Ultrafast switching with low energies is demonstrated using InP photonic crystal nanocavities embedding InGaAs surface quantum wells heterogeneously integrated to a silicon on insulator waveguide circuitry. Thanks to the engineered enhancement of surface non radiative recombination of carriers, switching time is obtained to be as fast as 10 ps. These hybrid nanostructures are shown to be capable of achieving systems level performance by demonstrating error free wavelength conversion at 10 Gbit/s with 6 mW switching powers.
International audienceWe report a chalcogenide suspended-core fiber with a record Kerr-nonlinearity of 46 000 W-1km-1 and attenuation of 0.9 dB/m. Four-wave-mixing efficiencies of -5.6 dB at 10 GHz and -17.5 dB at 42.7 GHz are obtained
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