GaAs-based multiple-quantum-well spatial light modulators fabricated by a wafer-scale process

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1635-1641

  Junique, Stéphane ^a   Wang, Qin ^a   Almqvist, Susanne ^a   Guo, Jianhua ^a   Martijn, Henk ^a   Noharet, Bertrand ^a   Andersson, Jan Y ^a  

^a ACREO AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ARRAYS; CAVITY RESONATORS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC FIELDS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WSI CIRCUITS;

DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS (DBR); MICROMIRRORS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MULTIPLE-QUANTUM-WELL MODULATION ARRAYS; WAFER-SCALE PROCESSING;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 15944368194     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.001635     Document Type: Article

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