Coherent all-optical switching by resonant quantum-dot distributions in photonic band-gap waveguides

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Vujic, Dragan ^a   John, Sajeev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LASER PULSES; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; WAVEGUIDES;

PULSE ABSORPTION; PULSE AMPLIFICATION; PULSE BANDWIDTH; RESONANCE FLUORESCENCE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 37249009779     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.063814     Document Type: Article

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