Reconfiguring Photonic Metamaterials with the Pressure of Light
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Li, Jinxiang; MacDonald, Kevin F.; Zheludev, Nikolay I.
- Source
- 2022 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2022 Conference on. :1-2 May, 2022
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Couplings
Optical metamaterials
Lasers and electrooptics
Electro-optic modulators
Optical coupling
Optical modulation
Optical control
- Language
Resonant ponderomotive non-thermal optical forces can control the optical response of a nanowire metamaterial. Strong optical nonlinearity achieved via coupling of optical and mechanical resonances enables all-optical transmission modulation at microwatt power levels.