Ultra-fast quantum-well saturable absorber devices and their application to all-optical regeneration of telecommunication optical signals

Annales des Telecommunications/Annals of Telecommunications

Volumn 58, Issue 11-12, 2003, Pages 1667-1707

  Oudar, Jean Louis ^a   Aubin, Guy ^a   Mangeney, Juliette ^b   Loualiche, Slimane ^c   Simon, Jean Claude ^d   Shen, Alexandre ^e   Leclerc, Olivier ^e  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c INSA DE RENNES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^e NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavity; Characterization; Crystal defect; Doping; Experimentation; Microelectronic fabrication; Modeling; Optical component; Optical telecommunication; Quantum well; Regeneration; Saturable absorber; Semiconductor device

Indexed keywords

MICROELECTRONIC FABRICATION; OPTICAL TELECOMMUNICATION; REGENERATION; SATURABLE ABSORBER; ALL OPTICAL REGENERATION; CAVITY; CHARACTERIZATION; EXPERIMENTATION; MICROELECTRONICS FABRICATION; MODELING; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; QUANTUM-WELLS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTIMIZATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SWITCHING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; FABRICATION; MICROELECTRONICS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 1842561712     PISSN: 00034347     EISSN: 19589395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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