Low-power all-optical switching in active semiconductor chirped periodic structures

Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 440-446

  Maywar, Drew N ^a   Agrawal, Govind P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; HYSTERESIS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ALL-OPTICAL DEVICES; GRATINGS; NONLINEAR OPTICS, DEVICES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS; OPTICAL SWITCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0005008105     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.3.000440     Document Type: Article

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