Stopping, storing, and releasing light in quantum-well Bragg structures

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2144-2156

  Yang, Z S ^a   Kwong, N H ^a   Binder, R ^a   Smirl, Arthur L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LASER PULSES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

QUANTUM WELL BRAGG STRUCTURES; RESONANT PHOTONIC BANDGAP STRUCTURES (RPBGS); TRANSFER MATRIX;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 27744547657     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.002144     Document Type: Article

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