• DocumentCode
    2084912
  • Title

    Nonlinear light pulse propagation in bragg-periodic multiple semiconductor quantum well samples: ultrafast switching of a resonant photonic band gap

  • Author

    Schaarschmidt, M. ; Forstner, J. ; Knorr, A. ; Prineas, J.P. ; Nielsen, N.C. ; Kuhl, J. ; Khitrova, G. ; Gibbs, H.M. ; Giessen, H. ; Koch, S.W.

  • Author_Institution
    Institut fur Theor. Physik, Technische Univ. Berlin
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    21-21 May 2004
  • Firstpage
    480
  • Lastpage
    482
  • Abstract
    We investigate theoretically the ultrafast nonlinear suppression of the resonant photonic band gap by strong laser pulses in semiconductor multiple quantum wells. We achieve good agreement with our measurements on reflection samples
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; light propagation; nonlinear optics; photonic band gap; resonant states; semiconductor quantum wells; Bragg-periodic semiconductor quantum well; nonlinear light pulse propagation; resonant photonic band gap; ultrafast switching; Nonlinear optics; Optical propagation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical solitons; Photonic band gap; Pulse measurements; Resonance; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics Conference, 2004. (IQEC). International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-778-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1366854