Optical switching based on the conditional Faraday effect with electron spins in quantum dots

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 637-645

  Thompson, Amy V ^a,b   Seigneur, Hubert ^b   Leuenberger, Michael N ^b   Schoenfeld, Winston V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional Faraday effect; Fabrication; Faraday effect; Materials; Optical polarization; Optical switches; Photonic switching; Quantum dots; Quantum mechanics; Refractive index; Refractive index modulation

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL FARADAY EFFECT; OPTICAL POLARIZATION; PHOTONIC SWITCHING; QUANTUM DOTS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX MODULATION;

ELECTRONS; FARADAY EFFECT; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFRACTION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MECHANICS; MODULATION; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPIN DYNAMICS; SWITCHING;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 66149131909     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2013141     Document Type: Article

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