An all-optical, non-volatile, bidirectional, phase-change meta-switch.

Gholipour, Behrad; Zhang, Jianfa; MacDonald, Kevin F; Hewak, Daniel W; Zheludev, Nikolay I · Adv Mater · 2013

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Non-volatile, bidirectional, all-optical switching in a phase-change metamaterial delivers high-contrast transmission and reflection modulation at near- to mid-infrared wavelengths in device structures down to ≈1/27 of a wavelength thick.