Accession Number:

ADP007580

Title:

All-Optical Modulation by Interaction Between Interband and Intraband Lights in N-Doped Quantum Well Structure,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

KYOTO UNIV (JAPAN)

Personal Author(s):

• Noda, Susumu
• Okuda, Tetsuro
• Yamashita, Takao
• Sasaki, Akio

Report Date:

1992-05-22

Pagination or Media Count:

4.0

Abstract:

There is great interest in nonlinear optical phenomena in a quantum well structure. Although there are various energy levels in the quantum well structure, most of nonlinear devices with the quantum well structure only utilize either interband or intraband electron transition. The interband transition is the transition from a valence band to a conduction band, and the intraband transition is the transition between the first and the second quantized energy levels in a conduction or a valence band. When we utilize both of the interband- and the intraband-transitions simultaneously, the freedom of the device synthesis is greatly increased, and light-controlled optical devices which are indispensable for the future optical signal processing and optical computing can be realized.

Descriptors:

• *NONLINEAR OPTICS
• *ELECTROOPTICS
• CONDUCTION BANDS
• ELECTRON TRANSITIONS
• ELECTRONS
• ENERGY
• ENERGY LEVELS
• LIGHT
• OPTICAL PHENOMENA
• PROCESSING
• SIGNAL PROCESSING
• SYNTHESIS
• TRANSITIONS
• VALENCE
• VALENCE BANDS
• SYMPOSIA
• JAPAN
• OPTICAL PROCESSING

Subject Categories:

• Electrooptical and Optoelectronic Devices

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE