Detuning management of optical solitons in coupled quantum wells

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Yang, Wen Xing ^a,b   Hou, Jing Min ^a   Lin, Yuanyao ^b   Lee, Ray Kuang ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES; SOLITONS; WELLS;

CARRIER FREQUENCIES; COUPLED QUANTUM WELL STRUCTURES; COUPLED QUANTUM WELLS; DARK OPTICAL SOLITONS; DETUNING; INTER-SUBBAND TRANSITIONS; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; OPTICAL SOLITONS; QUANTUM WELLS; RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES; TERAHERTZ; TWO PHOTONS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 63549104422     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.033825     Document Type: Article

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