Nonlinear optical waveguides based on near-infrared intersubband transitions in GaN/AIN quantum wells

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 5860-5865

  Li, Yan ^a   Bhattacharyya, Anirban ^a   Thomidis, Christos ^a   Moustakas, Theodore D ^a   Paiella, Roberto ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ALUMINUM GALLIUM NITRIDE; GALLIUM NITRIDE; MODAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

DIELECTRIC STRUCTURE; INFRARED INTERSUBBAND TRANSITIONS; INTERSUBBAND ABSORPTION; INTERSUBBAND TRANSITIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PROPAGATION LOSSES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 34247847989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.005860     Document Type: Article

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