DocumentCode
400019
Title
Slow-light in nonuniform quantum dot waveguide
Author
Ku, P.C. ; Chang-Hasnain, C.J. ; Kim, J. ; Chuang, S.L.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Volume
1
fYear
2003
fDate
27-28 Oct. 2003
Firstpage
441
Abstract
We analyzed a new variable all-optical buffer using semiconductor quantum dots (QD). We show that an InAs-InGaAs-GaAs QD waveguide with 20 meV inhomogeneous linewidth can achieve substantial buffering with a novel unbalanced multi-wavelength pumping scheme.
Keywords
III-V semiconductors; gallium arsenide; indium compounds; optical couplers; optical pumping; optical waveguides; self-induced transparency; semiconductor quantum dots; spectral line breadth; 20 meV; InAs-InGaAs-GaAs; absorption linewidth; all-optical buffer; electromagnetically induced transparency; nonuniform waveguide; optical coupling; quantum dot waveguide; semiconductor quantum dots; unbalanced multiwavelength pumping; Electromagnetic waveguides; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical buffering; Optical pumping; Optical signal processing; Optical waveguides; Quantum dot lasers; Quantum dots; US Department of Transportation;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
ISSN
1092-8081
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7888-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/LEOS.2003.1251898
Filename
1251898
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