Semiconductor-based femtosecond all-optical switches being developed for optical communications are described. Switching beyond 100 Gb/s has been demonstrated by a variety of principles including intersubband transition in quantum wells and absorption recovery in quantum dots.


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    Title :

    Ultrafast all-optical switching in semiconductor quantum wells and quantum dots


    Contributors:
    Wada, O. (author)


    Publication date :

    2005-01-01


    Size :

    223347 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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