High-Speed Large Area Surface-Normal Multiple Quantum Well Modulators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5160, Issue , 2003, Pages 346-354

  Goetz, Peter G ^a   Mahon, Rita ^a   Stievater, Todd H ^a   Rabinovich, William S ^a   Binari, Steven C ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled Well; Free space optics; FSO; Modulating retroreflector; MQW; MRR; Multiple Quantum Well

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SPACE OPTICS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

COUPLED WELLS; FREE-SPACE OPTICS (FSO); MODULATING RETROREFLECTORS (MRR); MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELLS (MQW);

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 16544364722     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.507768     Document Type: Conference Paper

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