Time-modulated Coupled-cavity System for Optical Switching
Keywords:
cavity resonators, finite-difference time-domain method, switch, time-varying circuitsAbstract
The scattering parameters of a time-modulated twocoupled- cavity system are obtained using coupled mode theory and verified using the finite-difference time-domain method. We find that a suitably tailored time-modulation of the cavities allows for switching the output on and off. The proposed functionality can be used in direct amplitude modulation of an optical carrier from a frequency-modulated RF message.
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