All-optical switching behaviors in an all-semiconductor nonlinear loop device

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1334-1341

  Lee, Jiun Haw ^a   Wang, Jyh Yang ^a   Yang, C C ^a   Kiang, Yean Woei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT MODULATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE MODULATION; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (SOA);

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0035599757     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.18.001334     Document Type: Article

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