Ultrafast all-optical switching in multiple-quantum-well Y-junction waveguides at the band gap resonance

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 655-660

  LiKamWa, Patrick ^a,b,c,d,e   Kan'an, Ayman M ^b,d,f,g,h  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c University of Central Florida   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^f JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^h University of Central Florida ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

BAND GAP RESONANCE; CARRIER INDUCED NONLINEARITY; OPTICAL STARK EFFECT; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0030230003     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.571765     Document Type: Article

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