High-speed all-optical modulation using an InGaAs/AlAsSb quantum well waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 9684-9690

  Abedin, Kazi S ^a   Lu, Guo Wei ^a   Miyazaki, Tetsuya ^a   Akimoto, Ryoichi ^b   Ishikawa, Hiroshi ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; MODULATION; PHASE MODULATION; PROBES; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM;

ARBITRARY WAVEFORM; COUPLED QUANTUM WELL; CROSS PHASE MODULATION; EXCITATION PULSE; INTENSITY-MODULATED; INTERSUBBAND TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM WELL WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

GALLIUM; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; INDIUM; INDIUM ARSENIDE; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ARSENICALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GALLIUM; INDIUM; LIGHT; MICROWAVES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; QUANTUM DOTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 46149091535     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.009684     Document Type: Article

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