Electroabsorption and refractive index modulation induced by intersubband transitions in GaN/AlN multiple quantum wells

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 12541-12549

  Lupu, A ^a,b   Tchernycheva, M ^a,b   Kotsar, Y ^c   Monroy, E ^c   Julien, F H ^a,b  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DIFFERENT ORDER; ELECTRO-ABSORPTION; INDEX VARIATION; INP; INTERSUBBAND TRANSITIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX MODULATION; SPECTRAL DOMAINS; WAVE CONFIGURATIONS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ALUMINUM DERIVATIVE; ALUMINUM NITRIDE; GALLIUM; GALLIUM NITRIDE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ABSORPTION; ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTRONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GALLIUM; LIGHT; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84861485292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.012541     Document Type: Article

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