Slow-to-fast light using absorption to gain switching in quantum-well semiconductor optical amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 9963-9969

  Kondratko, Piotr Konrad ^a   Chuang, Shun Lien ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; GAIN MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM THEORY; SWITCHING SYSTEMS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

COHERENT POPULATION OSCILLATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34547759298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.009963     Document Type: Article

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