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Record Nr.

UNINA9910346900903321

Autore

Vallaitis Thomas

Titolo

Ultrafast nonlinear silicon waveguides and quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

KIT Scientific Publishing, 2011

ISBN

1000024381

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VII, 260 p. p.)

Collana

Karlsruhe Series in Photonics & Communications / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics (IPQ)

Soggetti

Technology: general issues

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, nonlinear silicon-organic hybrid waveguides and quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers are investigated. Advantageous applications are identified, and corresponding proof-of-principle experiments are performed. Highly nonlinear silicon-organic hybrid waveguides show potential for all-optical signal processing based on fourwave mixing and cross-phase modulation. Quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers operate as linear amplifiers with a very large dynamic range.