Toward soliton emission in asymmetric GaAs/AlGaAs multiple-quantum-well waveguide structures below the half-bandgap

Optics Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 1282-1284

  Dumais, Patrick ^a   Villeneuve, Alain ^a   Saher Helmy, Amr ^b   Aitchison, J Stewart ^b   Friedrich, Lars ^c   Fuerst, Russell A ^c   Stegeman, George I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOLITON EMISSION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY GAP; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0010864126     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.25.001282     Document Type: Article

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