Generation of ultrashort electrical pulses in semiconductor waveguides

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 428-430

  Loyo Maldonado, V ^a,b   Lee, H K ^a   Stanley, C R ^a   Venugopal Rao, S ^c   Moutzouris, K ^c   Ebrahimzadeh, M ^c   Aitchison, J S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Inense Photonics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coplanar waveguides (CPW); Electromagnetic propagation; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Optical waveguides; Optoelectronic devices

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL RECTIFICATION;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 0037342468     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.807898     Document Type: Article

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