Title : 
Photonic Transistors based on Gain and Absorption Manipulation of Optical Interference
         
        
            Author : 
Huang, Yingyan ; Ho, Seng-Tiong
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Northwestern Univ., Evanston
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A novel semiconductor photonic transistor employing gain and absorption manipulation of optical interference is proposed. These devices could have a transistor figure of merits >105 times higher than chi(3) approaches and are highly attractive.
         
        
            Keywords : 
light interference; optical switches; phototransistors; absorption manipulation; all-optical switch; gain manipulation; optical interference; semiconductor photonic transistor; third-order optical nonlinearity; Absorption; Interference; Nonlinear optics; Optical devices; Optical modulation; Optical pulses; Optical waveguides; Power semiconductor switches; Semiconductor waveguides; Ultrafast optics; all-optical switch; photonic transistor;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Photonics in Switching, 2007
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Francisco, CA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
1-4244-1121-1
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
1-4244-1122-X
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/PS.2007.4300782