An All‐Optical, Non‐volatile, Bidirectional, Phase‐Change Meta‐Switch

Non-volatile, bidirectional, all-optical switching in a phase-change metamaterial delivers high-contrast transmission and reflection modulation at near- to mid-infrared wavelengths in device structures down to ≈1/27 of a wavelength thick.

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