| dc.contributor.advisor | Dirk R. Englund. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Panuski, Christopher Louis. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.other | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-11-04T20:23:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-11-04T20:23:10Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2019 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122764 | |
| dc.description | Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019 | en_US |
| dc.description | Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. | en_US |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (pages 54-56). | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The free-carrier dispersion effect - which is resonantly enhanced by a cavity's quality factor to mode volume ratio Q/V[subscript eff] - enables ultrafast, energy-efficient, all-optical control of semiconductor resonators. When applied to recently developed photonic crystal cavities with record-high Q/V[subscript eff] values, this enhanced light-matter interaction unveils new possibilities in nonlinear optics. Here, by considering the free-carrier dispersion effect at the limit of a single photoexcited charge carrier pair, we analyze the possibility of realizing room-temperature, all-optical single photon detection. | en_US |
| dc.description.statementofresponsibility | by Christopher Louis Panuski. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 56 pages | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | en_US |
| dc.rights | MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. | en_US |
| dc.title | Cavity-assisted all-optical photodetection | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.description.degree | S.M. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | en_US |
| dc.identifier.oclc | 1124926290 | en_US |
| dc.description.collection | S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | en_US |
| dspace.imported | 2019-11-04T20:23:09Z | en_US |
| mit.thesis.degree | Master | en_US |
| mit.thesis.department | EECS | en_US |
