학술논문

A room temperature all-optical polarization switch based on the excitation of spin-polarized "virtual" carriers in quantum wells
Document Type
Conference
Source
(CLEO). Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. Lasers and Electro-Optics Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on. 3:1587-1592 Vol. 3 2005
Subject
Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Temperature
Quantum well devices
Resonance
Optical polarization
Absorption
Laser tuning
Excitons
Cities and towns
Optical switches
Nonlinear optics
Language
Abstract
Room temperature operation of a polarization switch based on virtual excitation of spin-polarized carriers in quantum wells is demonstrated, which exhibits a contrast ratio of /spl sim/27:1 and a switching time of /spl sim/575 fs.