Increased quadratic electro-optic effect in GaAs/AlGaAs square quantum wells

Electronics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 1973-1974

  Earnshaw, M P ^a,d   Allsopp, D W E ^a,e   Chidley, E T R ^b   Grey, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; EXCITONS; LIGHT MODULATORS; MOIRE FRINGES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTOCURRENTS; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

FABRY-PEROT FRINGE SHIFT; GALLIUM ARSENIDE QUANTUM WELLS; LINEAR ELECTROOPTIC EFFECTS; PHOTOCURRENT MEASUREMENT; QUADRATIC ELECTROOPTIC EFFECTS;

ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS;

EID: 0033340349     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19991286     Document Type: Article

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