Slow light and voltage control of group velocity in resonantly coupled quantum wells

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 12467-12472

  Ginzburg, Pavel ^a   Orenstein, Meir ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PROPAGATION; RESONANT TUNNELING; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

GROUP INDEX; GROUP VELOCITY; RESONANTLY COUPLED QUANTUM WELLS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 33845430069     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.012467     Document Type: Article

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