Simulation of ultrafast GaN/AlN intersubband optical switches

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E88-C, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 342-348

  Suzuki, Nobuo ^a   Iizuka, Norio ^a   Kaneko, Kei ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

FDTD; Gan; Intersubband transition; Optical switch; OTDM

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM NITRIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GALLIUM NITRIDE; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

DISLOCATION DENSITY; INTERSUBBAND TRANSITION (ISBT); LOW-LOSS SUBMICRON WAVEGUIDES; OTDM;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 24144488237     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e88-c.3.342     Document Type: Article

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