• DocumentCode
    2987461
  • Title

    Engineering intersubband nonlinearities in GaN/AlGaN coupled quantum wells for optimised performance in wide bandwidth applications

  • Author

    Sun, Greg ; Khurgin, Jacob B. ; Soref, Richard A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Massachusetts Univ., Boston, MA, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    22-27 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    2091
  • Abstract
    We investigate nonlinear optical properties of coupled GaN/AlGaN quantum wells and show that one can engineer the response time and nonlinear phase shift within wide limits and thus achieve optimised performance for a given symbol rate.
  • Keywords
    aluminium compounds; gallium compounds; nonlinear optics; optical materials; semiconductor quantum wells; wide band gap semiconductors; GaN-AlGaN; GaN/AlGaN coupled quantum wells; intersubband nonlinearities; nonlinear optical properties; nonlinear phase shift; response time; Aluminum gallium nitride; Bandwidth; Couplings; Delay; Fiber nonlinear optics; Gallium nitride; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical sensors; Optical wavelength conversion;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-795-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2005.202378
  • Filename
    1573444