• DocumentCode
    2866189
  • Title

    Measurement of the lifetimes of photo-excited carriers in type-I and type-II quantum well materials

  • Author

    Ru, Guoyun ; Choa, Fow-Sen ; Wei, Xing ; Chen, Gang ; Khurgin, Jacob B.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of CSEE, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    21-26 May 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Room temperature carrier lifetimes of both type-I and type-II InP-based multiple quantum wells near optical transparency were measured using the pump-probe technique. Longer carrier lifetime in the type-II sample was observed.
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; carrier lifetime; indium compounds; semiconductor optical amplifiers; semiconductor quantum wells; transparency; InP; optical transparency; photoexcited carrier lifetimes; pump-probe technique; semiconductor optical amplifier; type-I quantum well materials; type-II quantum well materials; Absorption; Bleaching; Charge carrier lifetime; Nonlinear optics; Optical crosstalk; Optical pumping; Probes; Quantum well devices; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; (060.4510) Optical communications; (250.5980) Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Long Beach, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627932
  • Filename
    4627932