• DocumentCode
    2990131
  • Title

    Ultrafast Intersubband Transition All-optical Switch with Improved Performance in Wide-Gap II-VI Quantum Wells

  • Author

    Akimoto, R. ; Akita, K. ; Hasama, H. ; Ishikawa, H.

  • Author_Institution
    National Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ultrafast Photonic Devices Laboratory, AIST, Tsukuba Central 2-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan, r-akimoto@aist.go.jp
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    24-28 Sept. 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Ultrafast all-optical switch using intersubband transition in wide-gap II-VI-based quantum well, featured by separate confinement heterostructure and narrow high-mesa waveguide was developed. A 50% reduction of operation energy with sub-ps response still kept is achieved.
  • Keywords
    Communication switching; Gallium arsenide; Optical devices; Optical refraction; Optical saturation; Optical signal processing; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Planar waveguides; Switches;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cannes, France
  • Print_ISBN
    978-2-912328-39-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-2-912328-39-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2006.4801116
  • Filename
    4801116