Room-temperature electro-optic up-conversion via internal photoemission
- 5 May 2003
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 82 (18) , 2960-2962
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1571981
Abstract
We describe the fabrication and operation of a device which performs linear optical up-conversion at room temperature. The mechanism for up-conversion is based on internal photoemission from a Schottky contact. We then describe the voltage dependence of this device and interpret it in terms of total energy conservation. Although an AlGaAs/GaAs system is employed here, the functionality is not material-specific and therefore should be widely applicable to different materials systems, such as GaN/InGaN.Keywords
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