Observation of a stronger-than-adiabatic change of light trapped in an ultrafast switched GaAs-AlAs microcavity

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Harding, Philip J ^a   Bakker, Huib J ^b   Hartsuiker, Alex ^b   Claudon, Julien ^c   Mosk, Allard P ^a   Gérard, Jean Michel ^c   Vos, Willem L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM ARSENIDE; OPTICAL PUMPING; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM;

ANALYTICAL MODEL; CAVITY RESONANCES; CRUCIAL PARAMETERS; FREQUENCY CHANGES; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; PHASE CHANGE; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-RESOLVED REFLECTIVITIES; ULTRA-FAST;

MICROCAVITIES;

EID: 84857391926     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.29.0000A1     Document Type: Article

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