Nonlinear Optics in Semiconductors I by Robert K. Willardson, Eicke R. Weber, Elsa Garmire, Alan

By Robert K. Willardson, Eicke R. Weber, Elsa Garmire, Alan Kost

Considering its inception in 1966, the sequence of numbered volumes often called Semiconductors and Semimetals has exceptional itself during the cautious number of famous authors, editors, and individuals. The "Willardson and Beer" sequence, because it is well known, has succeeded in publishing quite a few landmark volumes and chapters. not just did a lot of those volumes make an effect on the time in their ebook, yet they remain well-cited years after their unique liberate. lately, Professor Eicke R. Weber of the collage of California at Berkeley joined as a co-editor of the sequence. Professor Weber, a well known professional within the box of semiconductor fabrics, will additional give a contribution to carrying on with the sequence' culture of publishing well timed, hugely proper, and long-impacting volumes. a few of the fresh volumes, resembling Hydrogen in Semiconductors, Imperfections in III/V fabrics, Epitaxial Microstructures, High-Speed Heterostructure units, Oxygen in Silicon, and others promise that this custom may be maintained or even increased. Reflecting the really interdisciplinary nature of the sector that the sequence covers, the volumes in Semiconductors and Semimetals were and should stay of serious curiosity to physicists, chemists, fabrics scientists, and machine engineers in sleek undefined.

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The refractive index and the cavity phase change. Eventually, the phase change brings the cavity close to a transmission resonance, when there is a rapid increase in the intracavity intensity, a large change in the refractive index, and so on. If the cavity was initially far from resonance, the feedback is especially strong, transmission is locked in the high state, and bistability occurs. There are numerous publications devoted to optimizing nonlinear Fabry-Perots (Miller, 1981; Wherrett, 1984; Garmire, 1989).

The transmission abruptly increases and decreases at different levels. Between the switching levels, there are two possible transmission states. In this range, the transmission is low or high depending on the initial input. For optical memory, the two output states are taken to represent the logical values 0 and 1. An input beam, which carries this information, has intensity in the bistable range. A control beam is used to momentarily raise the total intensity and switch the transmission state high.

Quasi-CWexcitation), the intensity dependence for the nonlinearity is most helpful. 1. 6. Substrates were n-type, (100) oriented GaAs. The first layer grown was a thin GaAs layer to smooth the 1 RESONANT OPTICAL NONLINEARITIE~ IN SEMICONDUCTORS 17 FIG. 6. The multiple quantum well structures used for nonlinear optical studies. substrate. 50Aslayer with high A1 content to serve as an etch stop layer for substrate removal. 5 pm of MQW material. The GaAs wells were 50, 75, 100, 150, or 2508, wide.

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