All-optical spin-dependent polarization switching in Bragg-spaced quantum well structures
- 2 September 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 87 (10) , 101113
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2042550
Abstract
All-optical polarization switching is demonstrated in a resonant photonic band-gap structure consisting of Bragg-spaced quantum wells (BSQWs). The switch takes advantage of the large spin-dependent optical nonlinearities and the ultrafast recovery present in BSQWs to produce large throughputs (greater than 40%), high contrast ratios (greater than 40 dB), and large optical bandwidths ( ∼ 0.6 THz ) , where both switching time and sample recovery time are control-pulse-width limited.Keywords
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