Measuring the refractive index around intersubband transition resonance in GaN/AlN multi quantum wells

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 3800-3808

  Gross, Elad ^a   Nevet, Amir ^a   Pesach, Asaf ^a   Monroy, Eva ^b   Schacham, Shmuel E ^c   Orenstein, Meir ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a   Bahir, Gad ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^c ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; INTERFEROMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATION REPEATERS;

DIRECT MEASUREMENT; GAN/ALN; INTERFEROGRAMS; INTERFEROMETRIC TECHNIQUES; INTERSUBBAND RESONANCE; INTERSUBBAND TRANSITIONS; KRAMERS-KRONIG TRANSFORMS; MULTI QUANTUM WELLS; REFRACTIVE-INDEX DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL DISPERSIONS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ALUMINUM DERIVATIVE; ALUMINUM NITRIDE; GALLIUM; GALLIUM NITRIDE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GALLIUM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 84874096243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.003800     Document Type: Article

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