Ultra-fast photonic crystal/quantum dot all-optical switch for future photonic networks

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 6606-6614

  Nakamura, Hitoshi ^a   Sugimoto, Yoshimasa ^a   Kanamoto, Kyozo ^a,b   Ikeda, Naoki ^a   Tanaka, Yu ^a   Nakamura, Yusui ^c   Ohkouchi, Shunsuke ^a   Watanabe, Yoshinori ^d   Inoue, Kuon ^e   Ishikawa, Hiroshi ^a   Asakawa, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^e CHITOSE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL ENERGY; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTONIC NETWORKS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 19944427274     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.006606     Document Type: Article

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