Ultrafast nonlinear tuning of the reflection properties of AlGaAs photonic crystal waveguides by two-photon absorption

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 4729-4734

  Bristow, A D ^a,c   Kundys, D O ^a   Garcia Deniz A Z ^a   Wells, J P R ^a   Fox, A M ^a   Skolnick, M S ^a   Whittaker, D M ^a   Tahraoui, A ^a,b   Krauss, T F ^b   Roberts, J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONS; PROBES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TUNING; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

PATTERNED WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC COUPLING RESONANCE; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC LATTICES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 9744244221     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1790569     Document Type: Article

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