Two-photon absorption as a limitation to all-optical waveguide switching in semiconductors
- 12 November 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 57 (20) , 2063-2064
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.103941
Abstract
The dispersion of a parameter quantifying the effects of two‐photon absorption on all‐optical waveguide switching devices is evaluated for the case of semiconductors in a two band model. Serious limitations are predicted based on the nonresonant bound electron response for photon energies between the band gap and one half the band gap.Keywords
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