All-optical switching of infrared light on a lithium niobate/semiconductor interface
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Karvounis, Artemios; Weigand, Helena; Vogler-Neuling, Viola Valentina; Grange, Rachel
- 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
Performance evaluation
Energy consumption
Photonic band gap
Optical switches
Optical recording
Lighting
Lasers and electrooptics
- Language
We use photo-excited charges on a lithium niobate/semiconductor interface to perform reversible all-optical control of infrared light. Upon, below bandgap illumination it is recorded transmission contrast of 80% due to the build-up of a space-charge.