Spectrally adaptive infrared photodetectors with bias-tunable quantum dots

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-17

  Sakoǧlu, Unal ^a   Tyo, J Scott ^a   Hayat, Majeed M ^a   Raghavan, Sunil ^a   Krishna, Sanjay ^a  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTOCURRENTS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BIAS CONTROLLED SPECTRA; INFRARED PHOTODETECTOR; QUANTUM DOT INFRARED PHOTODETECTOR; QUANTUM WELL INFRARED PHOTODETECTOR;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 18844462993     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.000007     Document Type: Article

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