Ultrafast spin relaxation in quantum-confined structures for all-optical switching

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3283, Issue , 1998, Pages 602-613

  Wada, Osamu ^a   Tackeuchi, Atsushi ^a   Nishikawa, Yuji ^b   Nishimura, Tetsuya ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER LIFETIME; GALLIUM ALLOYS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES; SPIN DYNAMICS; SWITCHES; WELLS;

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; CONFINED STRUCTURES; DEMULTIPLEXER; EXCITON ABSORPTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSES; GATE SWITCHES; HIGH CONTRAST RATIOS; HIGH REPETITION RATES; NON LINEARITIES; QUANTUM WELLS; QUANTUM WIRES; SPEED LIMITS; SPIN RELAXATIONS; SPIN SWITCHES; SWITCHING DEVICES; ULTRA FASTS; ULTRAFAST RELAXATIONS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 10344261949     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.316711     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (26)

1. A. Tackeuchi, S. Muto, T. Inata, and T. Fujii, "Direct observation of picosecond spin relaxation of excitons in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells using spin-dependent optical nonlinearity," Appl. Phys. Lett., 56, pp. 2213-2215, 1990
2. T. C. Damen, K. Leo, J. Shah, J. E. Cunningham, "Spin relaxation and thermalization of excitons in GaAs quantum wells", Appl. Phys. Lett., 58, pp. 1902-1904, 1991
3. Ph. Rossignol, P. Rolland, R. Ferreira, C. Delalande, G. Bastard, A. Vinnattieri, L. Carraresi, M. Colocci, and B. Etienne, "Time-resolved spin-polarization spectroscopy in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells," Surf. Sci., 267, pp. 360-364, 1992
4. 1-xAs quantum well," Phys. Rev. B 44, pp. 5923-5926, 1991
5. A. Vinnattieri, J. Shah, T. C. Damen, D. S. Kim, L. N. Pfeiffer, M. Z. Maialle, and L. J. Sham, "Exciton dynamics in GaAs quantum wells under resonant excitation," Phys. Rev. B, 50, pp. 10868-10879, 1994
6. L. Munoz, E. Perez, L. Vina, and K. Ploog, "Spin relaxation in intrinsic GaAs quantum wells: Influence of excitomc localization," Phys. Rev. B 51, pp. 4247-4257, 1995
7. M. I. D'yakonov, and V. I. Perel', "Spin relaxation of conduction electrons in nancentrosymmetnc semiconductors," Sov. Phys.-Solid State, 13, pp. 3023-3025, 1972
8. R. J. Elliot, Phys. Rev., 98, 266, 1954;
9. Y. Yaffet, Solid State Phys., 14, 1, 1963
10. See for review E. J. Johnson, R. J. Seymour, and R. R. Alfano, "Photoluminescence of spin-polarized electrons in semiconductors" in Semiconductors Probed by Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy, vol. II, R. R. Alfano ed., Academic Press, 1984
11. G. Fasol, and H. Sakaki, "Spontaneous spin polarization of ballistic electrons in single-mode quantum wires due to spin splitting," Appl. Phys. Lett., 62, pp. 2230-2232, 1993
12. A. Migus, A. Antonetti, D. Hulin, A. Mysyrowicz, H. M. Gibbs, N. Peyghambarian, J. Jewell, "One-picosecond optical NOR gate at room temperature with a GaAs-AlGaAs multiple-quantum-well nonlinear Fabry-Perot etalon," Appl. Phys. Lett., 46, pp. 70-72, 1985
13. D. Hulin, A. Mysyrowitz, A. Antonetti, A. Migus, W. T. Masselink, H. Morkoc, H. M. Gibbs, and N. Peyghambarian, "Ultrafast all-optical gate with subpicosecond ON and OFF response time," Appl. Phys. Lett., 49, pp. 749-751, 1986
14. Y. Nishikawa, A. Tackeuchi, S. Nakamura, S. Muto, and N. Yokoyama, "All-optical picosecond switching of a quantum well etalon using spin-polarization relaxation," Appl. phys. Lett., 66, pp. 839-841, 1995
15. Y. Nishikawa, A. Tackeuchi, M. Yamaguchi, S. Muto, and O. Wada, "Performance of all-optical switch utilizing the spin-dependent transient rotation in a multiple-quantum-well etalon," Jpn. J. appl. Phys., 34, pp. L1283-1285, 1995
16. Y. Nishikawa, A. Tackeuchi, M. Yamaguchi, S. Muto, and O. Wada, "Ultrafast all-optical spin polarization switch using quantum-well etalon," IEEE J. Selected Topics in Quantum Electron., 2, pp. 661-667, 1996
17. M. Nakamura, "Technology Roadmap of Optoelectronics for the 21st Century," Abstracts of 4th Intern. Workshop on Femtosecond Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, 1997, pp. 1-7
18. J. -G. Zhang, "Meeting the need for fiber-optic transmission speed," IEEE Circuits and Devices Mag., Sept. 1997, pp. 17-33
19. M. S. Borella, J. P. Jue, D. Banerjee, B. Ramamurthy, B. Mukherjee, "Optical components for WDM lightwave networks," Proc. IEEE, 85, 1274-1307, 1997
20. A. Tackeuchi, Y. Nishikawa, and O. Wada, "Room temperature electron spin dynamics in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells," Appl. phys. Lett., 68, pp. 797-799, 1996
21. A. Tackeuchi, O. Wada, and Y. Nishikawa, "Electron spin relaxation in InGaAs/InP multiple-quantum wells," Appl. phys. Lett., 70, pp. 1131-113, 1997
22. X. -L. Wang, M. Ogura, H. Matsuhata, and T. Tada, "Fabrication and photoluminescence of AlGaAs/GaAs quantum wire superlattices on V-grooved substrate," Superlattices and Microstructures, 22, pp. 221-227, 1997
23. T. Nishimura, A. Tackeuchi, H. Yoshida, X. -L. Wang, M. Ogura, H. Matsuhata, and O. Wada, "Effect of electron spin dynamics in transient photoluminescence of AlGaAs/GaAs quantum wires," Abstracts of 4th Intern. Workshop on Femtosecond Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, 1997, p. 109
24. T. Nishimura, X. -L. Wang, M. Ogura, A. Tackeuchi, and O. Wada, "Electron spin dynamics in AlGaAs/GaAs quantum wires," Extended Abstracts of 3rd Symposium on Physics and Application of Spin-Related Phenomena in Semiconductors, Sendai, Japan, 1997, pp. 119-121
25. Y. Nishikawa, A. Tackeuchi, and O. Wada, "Carrier spin relaxation in proton-bombarded multiple quantum well structures for high-repetition-rate spin polarization switch," to be submitted.
26. Y. Nishikawa, A. Tackeuchi, M. Yamaguchi, S. Muto, and O. Wada, "Ultrafast all-optical switch with multiple-quantum-well etalon structure utilizing spin-dependent transient rotation," Tech. Dig. of 1996 Intern. Topical Meeting on Photonics in Switching, Sendai, Japan, 1996, Vol. 1, pp.150-151