Banishing the electron (exciton absorptive reflection switch)

Author

Kurokawa, Takashi ; Matsuo, Shinji ; Amano, Chikara

Author_Institution

NTT Otpo-electron. Lab., Kanagawa, Japan

Volume

3

Issue

1

fYear

1992

Firstpage

13

Lastpage

18

Abstract

Some recent advances in the two-dimensional multi-quantum-well (MQW) array devices and their applications are reviewed, focusing mainly on the exciton absorptive reflection switch (EARS). It is an optically controlled three-terminal structure based on a self-electrooptic effect device (SEED). Smart pixels enable all-optical switching and processing with a massive parallelism. EARS has good performance in terms of high contrast and optical gain. EARS can perform photonic processing such as all-optical bit pattern matching and waveform regeneration.<>

Keywords

electro-optical devices; excitons; optical switches; semiconductor quantum wells; 2D multiquantum well array devices; all optical processing; all-optical bit pattern matching; all-optical switching; contrast; exciton absorptive reflection switch; optical gain; optically controlled three-terminal structure; performance; photonic processing; self-electrooptic effect device; Ear; Electron optics; Excitons; Optical control; Optical devices; Optical reflection; Optical switches; Performance gain; Quantum well devices; Smart pixels;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

LTS, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1055-6877

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/80.122427

Filename

122427