Enhancement of all-optical cross phase modulation in InGaAs/AlAsSb coupled quantum wells using InAlAs coupling barriers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 2183-2185

  Nagase, Masanori ^a   Akimoto, Ryoichi ^a   Simoyama, Takasi ^a   Guangwei, Cong ^a   Mozume, Teruo ^a   Hasama, Toshifumi ^a   Ishikawa, Hiroshi ^a  

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

Author keywords

All optical switch; Coupled quantum wells (CQW); Cross phase modulation (XPM); Intersubband transition (ISBT)

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ARSENIDE; MODULATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHASE MODULATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES; WELLS;

ALL-OPTICAL; ALL-OPTICAL SWITCH; COUPLED QUANTUM WELLS (CQW); CROSS-PHASE MODULATION (XPM); INALAS; INGAAS/ALASSB; INTER-BAND TRANSITIONS; INTERSUBBAND TRANSITION (ISBT); MACH-ZEHNDER; OPTICAL CONFINEMENTS; QUANTUM LEVELS; REFRACTIVE INDEX DISPERSIONS; ULTRA FASTS; ULTRAFAST ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 59749095820     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.2006915     Document Type: Article

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