All-optical switching in distributed-feedback multiple-quantum-well waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 454-464

  Coriasso, C ^a   Campi, D ^a   Cacciatore, C ^a   Faustini, L ^a   Mautino, S ^a   Rigo, C ^a   Stano, A ^a  

^a Ctro Studi e Lab Telecomunicazioni   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; LIGHT MODULATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ALL-OPTICAL DEVICES; COUPLERS, SWITCHES, AND MULTIPLEXERS; SEMICONDUCTOR NONLINEAR OPTICS INCLUDING MQW;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0006719991     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.3.000454     Document Type: Article

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