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Maximally confined high-speed second-order silicon microdisk switches

Young, Ralph W.

We demonstrate the first high-speed second-order silicon microdisk bandpass switch. The switch, constructed of a pair of 3 {micro}m radii active microdisks possesses {approx}40GHz flat-top passbands, a 4.2THz free-spectral-range, and a 2.4ns switching time.