Novel hybrid optically bistable switch: The quantum well self‐electro‐optic effect device
作者:
D. A. B. Miller,
D. S. Chemla,
T. C. Damen,
A. C. Gossard,
W. Wiegmann,
T. H. Wood,
C. A. Burrus,
期刊:
Applied Physics Letters
(AIP Available online 1984)
卷期:
Volume 45,
issue 1
页码: 13-15
ISSN:0003-6951
年代: 1984
DOI:10.1063/1.94985
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
We report a new type of optoelectronic device, a self‐electro‐optic effect device (SEED), which uses the same GaAs/GaAlAs multiple quantum well material simultaneously as an optical detector and modulator. Using a series resistor and constant voltage bias supply the SEED shows optical bistabilty (OB) of the recently discovered type which relies on increasing absorption and requires no mirrors. OB is seen at room temperature from ∼850–860 nm, at powers as low as 670 nW or switching times as short as 400 ns (limited only by power restrictions) with ∼1‐nJ optical switching energy in a 600‐&mgr;m‐diam device. Total energies per unit area (∼18 fJ/&mgr;m2) are substantially lower than any previously reported for OB.
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