Interband-resonant light modulation by intersubband-resonant light in undoped quantum wells

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 448-455

  Noda, Susumu ^a,b,c,d,e   Ohya, Masaki ^b,f   Sakamoto, Takeshi ^b   Sasaki, Akio ^a,b,g,h,i,j  

^a IEEE

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

^e Foundation of Ando Laboratory

^f NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h NEC Corporation ^*

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^j Society for Information Display   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CARBON DIOXIDE LASERS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

INTERSUBBAND RESONANT LIGHT; NONLINEAR OPTICAL COUPLING; QUANTUM CONFINED STORK EFFECT;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 0030108945     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.485396     Document Type: Article

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