%0 Journal Article
%T All-Optical Switching Demonstration using Two-Photon Absorption and the Classical Zeno Effect
%A S. M. Hendrickson
%A C. N. Weiler
%A R. M. Camacho
%A P. T. Rakich
%A A. I. Young
%A M. J. Shaw
%A T. B. Pittman
%A J. D. Franson
%A B. C. Jacobs
%J Physics
%D 2012
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevA.87.023808
%X Low-contrast all-optical Zeno switching has been demonstrated in a silicon nitride microdisk resonator coupled to a hot atomic vapor. The device is based on the suppression of the field build-up within a microcavity due to non-degenerate two-photon absorption. This experiment used one beam in a resonator and one in free-space due to limitations related to device physics. These results suggest that a similar scheme with both beams resonant in the cavity would correspond to input power levels near 20 nW.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.0930v1