Title :
Quantum well saturation in ultra short absorptive waveguide section formed by quantum well intermixing
Author :
Huang, Yingyan ; Liu, Bo ; Xu, Guoyang ; Ho, Seng-Tiong ; Ooi, Boon-Siew
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate the fabrication of ultra-short absorptive sections in strongly confined waveguide employing quantum well intermixing technique, which could lead to the realization of nanoscale waveguides with selective saturable area for nonlinear optical device applications.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; integrated optics; nanostructured materials; optical fabrication; optical saturable absorption; optical waveguides; semiconductor quantum wells; nanoscale waveguides; nonlinear optical device applications; quantum well intermixing; quantum well saturation; selective saturable area; ultra short absorptive waveguide section; ultra-short absorptive section fabrication; Ion implantation; Nanoscale devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical resonators; Optical waveguide components; Optical waveguides; Photonic band gap; Quantum computing; Semiconductor waveguides;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.201945
