Optical analogue of a type II semiconductor heterostructure
- 1 July 2000
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 88 (1) , 1-6
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.373615
Abstract
A succession of directional couplers, which differ only through their refractive index distribution, is shown to be the optical analog of type II semiconductor heterostructures. The design of such a dielectric structure with the same transmission characteristic of the electric field propagating through it as the electron wave function in a type II heterostructure is discussed. An example of the design procedure is also given.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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