An optical modulator based on a single strongly coupled quantum dot - Cavity system in a p-i-n junction

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 18651-18658

  Englund, Dirk ^a,b   Faraon, Andrei ^a   Majumdar, Arka ^a   Stolte, Nick ^c   Petroff, Pierre ^c   Vučković, Jelena ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODULATORS; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CAVITY SYSTEM; COUPLED QUANTUM DOTS; HIGH BANDWIDTH; LOW POWER; P-I-N JUNCTIONS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CAVITIES; SINGLE QUANTUM DOT;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 70350343479     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018651     Document Type: Article

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