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Roberto R. Panepucci0
Carlos Angulo Barrios0
Michal Lipson0
Vilson Rosa de Almeida0
Date of Patent
July 15, 2008
0Patent Application Number
111371260
Date Filed
May 25, 2005
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Fast, all optical switching of light is provided on silicon, using highly light confining structures to enhance the sensitivity of light to small changes in refractive index. In one embodiment, the light confining structures are silicon micrometer-size planar ring resonators which operate with low pump light pulse energies.
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