• DocumentCode
    2671274
  • Title

    Ultrafast suppression and recovery of a resonant photonic bandgap

  • Author

    Prineas, J. ; Kuhl, J. ; Zhou, J.Y. ; Gibbs, H.M. ; Khitrova, G. ; Knorr, A. ; Koch, S.W.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Iowa Univ., Iowa City, IA, USA
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    6-6 June 2003
  • Abstract
    Resonant photonic bandgap structures, formed by Bragg-spaced quantum wells, are studied experimentally with resonant pump-probe spectroscopy. We find ultrafast suppression due to the ac Stark effect and ultrafast recovery enabled by superradiant decay of the coherent polarization.
  • Keywords
    Stark effect; diffraction gratings; high-speed optical techniques; nonlinear optics; photonic band gap; resonant states; semiconductor quantum wells; Bragg-spaced quantum wells; ac Stark effect; coherent polarization; nonlinear properties; pump-probe spectroscopy; resonant photonic bandgap; superradiant decay; ultrafast recovery; ultrafast suppression; Nonlinear optics; Optical materials; Optical modulation; Periodic structures; Photonic band gap; Probes; Pulse measurements; Resonance; Solitons; Stark effect;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics and Laser Science, 2003. QELS. Postconference Digest
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-749-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/QELS.2003.237950
  • Filename
    1276357