All-optical switching in an angled-grating semiconductor Bragg amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 815-817

  Franke, Mira A ^a   Winful, Herbert G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b University of Michigan   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; LIGHT SCATTERING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

ANGLED GRATING SEMICONDUCTOR BRAGG AMPLIFIER; BRAGG SCATTERING; DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SWITCHING AMPLIFIERS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0032691684     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.769717     Document Type: Article

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