All-optical switching effects in a passive GaAs/GaAlAs multiple-quantum-well waveguide resonator
All-optical switching effects in a passive GaAs/GaAlAs multiple-quantum-well waveguide resonator
- Author(s): P. Li Kam Wa ; P.N. Robson ; J.P.R. David ; G. Hill ; P. Mistry ; M.A. Pate ; J.S. Roberts
- DOI: 10.1049/el:19860774
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- Author(s): P. Li Kam Wa 1 ; P.N. Robson 1 ; J.P.R. David 2 ; G. Hill 2 ; P. Mistry 2 ; M.A. Pate 2 ; J.S. Roberts 2
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1: Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
2: Central Facility for III-V Semiconductors, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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Affiliations:
1: Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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Volume 22, Issue 21,
9 October 1986,
p.
1129 – 1130
DOI: 10.1049/el:19860774 , Print ISSN 0013-5194, Online ISSN 1350-911X
All-optical switching has been observed in a passive GaAs/GaAlAs MQW waveguide resonator at room temperature, and we have shown that the mechanism responsible for the switch is not due to thermal effects.
Inspec keywords: cavity resonators; semiconductor superlattices; aluminium compounds; switching; gallium arsenide; optical waveguides; III-V semiconductors; optical bistability; light interferometry
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Subjects: Nonlinear optics and devices; Optical waveguides and couplers; Other semiconductor devices; Optical waveguides; Nonlinear optics
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