Application of Spectral-Hole Burning in the Inhomogeneously Broadened Gain of Self-Assembled Quantum Dots to a Multiwavelength-Channel Nonlinear Optical Device

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1301-1303

  Akiyama, Tomoyuki ^a   Kuwatsuka, Haruhiko ^b   Simoyama, Takashi ^b   Nakata, Yoshiaki ^b   Mukai, Kohki ^b   Sugawara, Mitsuru ^b   Wada, Osamu ^a   Ishikawa, Hiroshi ^b  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nonlinear optical device; Quantum dots; Spectral hole burning; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347948921     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.883810     Document Type: Article

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