Room temperature slow light in a quantum-well waveguide via coherent population oscillation

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 9909-9915

  Palinginis, Phedon ^a   Sedgwick, Forrest ^a   Crankshaw, Shanna ^a   Moewe, Michael ^a   Chang Hasnain, Connie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COHERENT LIGHT; EXCITONS; RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COHERENT POPULATION OSCILLATION (CPO); EXCITON TRANSITION;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 28044461019     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.009909     Document Type: Article

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