We have demonstrated femtosecond pulse-induced nonlinear birefringence in a multi-quantum well semiconductor optical amplifier for all-optical switching. Coherent nonlinear optical effects such as two-photon absorption could be responsible for the ultrashort-transient birefringence.


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    Title :

    Ultrafast all-optical switching by pulse-induced birefringence in a multi-quantum well optical amplifier


    Contributors:
    Ju, H. (author) / Zhang, S. (author) / de Waardt, H. (author) / Khoe, G.D. (author) / Doren, H.J.S. (author)


    Publication date :

    2004-01-01


    Size :

    122692 byte



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English