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Rigorous analysis of bistable memory in silica toroid microcavity

Optics 2015-06-11 v1

Abstract

We model the nonlinear response of a silica toroid microcavity using coupled mode theory and a finite element method, and successfully obtain Kerr bistable operation that does not suffer from thermo-optic effect by optimizing the fiber-cavity coupling. Our analysis shows it is possible to demonstrate a Kerr bistable memory with a memory holding time of 500 ns at an extremely low energy consumption.

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@article{arxiv.1208.1124,
  title  = {Rigorous analysis of bistable memory in silica toroid microcavity},
  author = {Wataru Yoshiki and Takasumi Tanabe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.1124},
  year   = {2015}
}