Ultrafast all-optical switching and modulation using intersubband transitions in coupled quantum well structures

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E87-C, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1134-1141

  Yoshida, Haruhiko ^a   Simoyama, Takasi ^a   Gopal, Achanta Venu ^a,b   Kasai, Jun Ichi ^a   Mozume, Teruo ^a   Ishikawa, Hiroshi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

All optical; Coupled quantum well; Intersubband transition; Optical communication; Sb

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHONONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SWITCHING;

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; COUPLED QUANTUM WELLS; INTERSUBBAND TRANSITIONS;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 3142762284     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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