Picosecond all-optical polarization switching in InGaAsP MQW's at 1.52 μm

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1419-1421

  Hyland, James Theodore ^b   Kennedy, Gordon Thomas ^b   Miller, Alan ^a,b   Button, Chris C ^c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Excitons; Optical communications; Optical switches; Quantum wells; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

EXCITONS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

PICOSECOND ALL-OPTICAL POLARIZATION SWITCHING; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0032186737     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.720280     Document Type: Article

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