Development of a large high-performance 2-D array of GaAs-AlGaAs multiple quantum-well modulators

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1531-1533

  Arad, Uriel ^a   Redmard, Eddie ^a   Shamay, Moshe ^a   Averboukh, Arkadi ^a   Levit, Shimon ^b   Efron, Uzi ^c  

^a Lenslet   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arrays; Excitons; Fabry P rot resonators; Optical correlators; Quantum wells; Quantum confined Stark effect; Spatial light modulators; Ultrahigh frequency modulation

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXCITONS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; INSERTION LOSSES; LIGHT MODULATION; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

FABRY-PEROT RESONATORS; OPTICAL CORRELATORS; QUANTUM-CONFINED STARK EFFECT; ULTRAHIGH-FREQUENCY MODULATION;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 0242334133     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.818663     Document Type: Article

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