| abstract |
Optical component ( 10 ) for modulating light field ( 1 ) incident thereon, particularly amplitude and/or phase in dependency on intensity (I) thereof, includes stack ( 11 ) of refractive layers ( 12, 13 ) on substrate ( 14 ), made of materials having third-order nonlinearity, and having alternatingly varying refractive indices (n), including linear contribution (n 0 ) and non-linear contribution (n 2 ), and determining reflectance and transmittance spectra of the optical component, wherein refractive layers ( 12, 13 ) are configured such that reflectance and transmittance of the optical component have a Kerr effect based dependency on intensity (I) of the incident light field with n=n 0 +I·n 2 , and refractive layers ( 12, 13 ) are made of at least one of dielectric and semiconductor layers, wherein non-linear contribution (n 2 ) is below 10 −12 cm 2 /W. A resonator device including the optical component, a method of modulating a light field using the optical component and a method of manufacturing the optical component are described. |