Englund, DirkFaraon, AndreiFushman, IlyaEllis, BryanAltug, HaticeVuckovic, Jelena2016-08-162016-08-162016-08-16200810.1117/12.774680https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/128693We have recently demonstrated a number of functional photonic crystals devices and circuits, including an ultrafast, room-temperature, low threshold, nanocavity laser with the direct modulation speed approaching 1THz, an all-optical switch controlled with 60 0 pulses and with the speed exceeding 20GHz, and a local, reversible tuning of individual quantum dots on a photonic crystal chip by up to 1.8nm, which was then used to tune single quantum dots into strong coupling with a photonic crystal cavity and to achieve a giant optical nonlinearity.lasermodulatoroptical communicationsphotonic crystalquantum dotquantum informationtext::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper