Sub-pJ operation of broadband asymmetric Fabry-Perot all-optical gate with coupled cavity structure

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 72, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 1545-1547

  Akiyama, Tomoyuki ^a   Tsuchiya, Masahiro ^a   Kamiya, Takeshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CALCULATIONS; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PERFORMANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ALL OPTICAL DEMULTIPLEXING; ALL OPTICAL GATING DEVICE; ASYMMETRIC FABRY-PEROT DEVICE; OPTICAL TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; ULTRAHIGH BIT RATE;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0032023479     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.120577     Document Type: Article

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