Ultrafast all-optical switching at 1.3 μm/1.55 μm using novel InGaAs/AlAsSb/InP coupled double quantum well structure for intersubband transitions

Electronics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1103-1105

  Yoshida, H ^a   Mozume, T ^a   Neogi, A ^a   Wada, O ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; INTERSUBBAND TRANSITIONS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0032661348     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19990733     Document Type: Article

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