Waveguide saturable absorbers at 1.55 μm based on intraband transitions in GaN/AlN QDs

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 27578-27586

  Monteagudo Lerma, L ^a   Valdueza Felip, S ^b   Naranjo, F B ^a   Corredera, P ^c   Rapenne, L ^d   Sarigiannidou, E ^d   Strasser, G ^e   Monroy, E ^b   Gonzalez Herraez M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^c INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

^d GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^e VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; GAN/ALN; INPUT PULSE ENERGY; INTRABAND ABSORPTIONS; INTRABAND TRANSITIONS; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; OPTICAL POWER; SINGLE MODE WAVEGUIDES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84888219830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.027578     Document Type: Article

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