Dynamical ultrafast all-optical switching of planar GaAsAlAs photonic microcavities

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Harding, Philip J ^a   Euser, Tijmen G ^a   Nowicki Bringuier, Yoanna Reine ^b   Ǵrard, Jean Michel ^b   Vos, Willem L ^a,c  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; LASER TUNING; OPTIMIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

OPTICALLY EXCITING FREE CARRIERS; PHOTONIC MICROCAVITIES; TUNABLE LASER PULSES; ULTRAFAST SWITCHING;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 34548702243     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2779106     Document Type: Article

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