An efficient optical knob from slow light to fast light in a coupled nanomechanical resonator-quantum dot system

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 19874-19881

  Li, Jin Jin ^a   Zhu, Ka Di ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RESONATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

COHERENT POPULATION OSCILLATION; COUPLING SYSTEMS; EXCITON RESONANCES; GROUP VELOCITIES; NANOMECHANICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL METHODS; QUANTUM DOT SYSTEMS; SLOW AND FAST LIGHT;

SLOW LIGHT;

QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIBRATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MICRO-ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM DOTS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIBRATION;

EID: 70749144759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.019874     Document Type: Article

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