Giant Kerr nonlinearities and slow optical solitons in coupled double quantum-well nanostructure

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 374, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 355-359

  Yang, Wen Xing ^a,b   Zha, Ting Ting ^a   Lee, Ray Kuang ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Kerr nonlinearity; Optical solitons; Semiconductor quantum well

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; SOLITONS;

DOUBLE QUANTUM WELL; KERR NONLINEARITY; LINEAR ABSORPTION; LOW-INTENSITY; NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE; OPTICAL SOLITON; SHAPE-PRESERVING; SLOW GROUP VELOCITY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 71849103631     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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