• DocumentCode
    2085205
  • Title

    Room temperature photo-induced kerr effects in semiconductor microcavities

  • Author

    Bahbah, S. ; Frey, R. ; Andre, R. ; Flytzanis, C. ; Roosen, G.

  • Author_Institution
    Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l´´Institut d´´Optique, Univ. de Paris-Sud, Orsay
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    21-21 May 2004
  • Firstpage
    505
  • Lastpage
    505
  • Abstract
    We show that giant polarization rotations and ellipticity changes can be photo-induced in semiconductor microcavities at room temperature. This sensitive (few muJ/cm2) polarization technique could be useful for high contrast parallel optical signal processing
  • Keywords
    light polarisation; micro-optics; microcavities; optical Kerr effect; optical information processing; optical rotation; reflectivity; giant polarization rotations; optical signal processing; room temperature photoinduced Kerr effects; semiconductor microcavities; Laboratories; Microcavities; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical devices; Optical polarization; Optical sensors; Optical signal processing; Quantum well devices; Temperature;
  • 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
    1366865