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Optical Switching in Low-Dimensional Systems

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. H. Haug

    1. Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Federal Republic of Germany

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  2. L. Bányai

    1. Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Federal Republic of Germany

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series B: (NSSB, volume 194)

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Table of contents (35 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Switching Devices

    1. Integrated Quantum Well Switching Devices

      • David A. B. Miller
      Pages 1-8

    2. Intrinsic Optical Bistability and Collective Nonlinear Phenomena in Periodic Coupled Microstructures: Model Experiments

      • Dieter Jäger, Armin Gasch, Karl Moser
      Pages 9-23

    3. Carrier Induced Effects of Quantum Well Structure and its Application to Optical Modulators and Optical Switches

      • H. Sakaki, H. Yoshimura
      Pages 25-33

    4. Optical Bistability and Nonlinear Switching in Quantum Well Amplifiers

      • M. J. Adams, L. D. Westbrook
      Pages 35-48

    5. Patterned Quantum Well Semiconductor Lasers

      • E. Kapon, J. P. Harbison, R. Bhat, D. M. Hwang
      Pages 49-59

    6. High Injection Effects in Quantum Well Lasers

      • P. Blood
      Pages 61-69

    7. Real and Virtual Charge Polarizations in DC Biased Low-Dimensional Semiconductor Structures

      • Masamichi Yamanishi
      Pages 71-82

    8. Nonlinear Optical Properties of n-i-p-i and Hetero n-i-p-i Structures

      • Gottfried H. Döhler
      Pages 83-95

  3. Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials

    1. Excitonic Optical Nonlinearities in Polydiacetylene: The Mechanisms

      • B. I. Greene, J. Orenstein, S. Schmitt-Rink, M. Thakur
      Pages 97-106

    2. Cubic Nonlinear Optical Effects in Conjugated 1D II-Electron Systems

      • F. Kajzar
      Pages 107-117

  4. High-Field Effects, Femtosecond Spectroscopy

    1. Optical Stark Shift in Quantum Wells

      • D. Hulin, M. Joffre, A. Migus, A. Antonetti
      Pages 119-127

    2. Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Optically Excited Quantum Well Structures

      • D. S. Chemla
      Pages 129-137

    3. Femtosecond Dynamics of Semiconductor Nonlinearities: Theory and Experiments

      • S. W. Koch, N. Peyghambarian, M. Lindberg, B. D. Fluegel
      Pages 139-150

    4. Stationary Solutions for the Excitonic Optical Stark Effect in Two and Three Dimensional Semiconductors

      • H. Haug, C. Ell, J. F. Müller, K. El Sayed
      Pages 151-158

    5. Coherent Nonlinear Edge Dynamics in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

      • I. Balslev, A. Stahl
      Pages 159-169

    6. Exciton Stark Shift : Biexcitonic Origin and Exciton Splitting

      • Monique, Roland Combescot
      Pages 171-179

  5. Microcrystallites

    1. Quantum Size Effects and Photocarrier Dynamics in the Optical Nonlinearities of Semiconductor Microcrystallites

      • Ch. Flytzanis, D. Ricard, Ph. Roussignol
      Pages 181-190

    2. Optical Nonlinearities and Femtosecond Dynamics of Quantum Confined CdSe Microcrystallites

      • N. Peyghambarian, S. H. Park, R. A. Morgan, B. Fluegel, Y. Z. Hu, M. Lindberg et al.
      Pages 191-201

    3. Enhanced Optical Nonlinearity and Very Rapid Response Due to Excitons in Quantum Wells and Dots

      • Eiichi Hanamura
      Pages 203-210
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About this book

This book contains all the papers presented at the NATO workshop on "Optical Switching in Low Dimensional Systems" held in Marbella, Spain from October 6th to 8th, 1988. Optical switching is a basic function for optical data processing, which is of technological interest because of its potential parallelism and its potential speed. Semiconductors which exhibit resonance enhanced optical nonlinearities in the frequency range close to the band edge are the most intensively studied materials for optical bistability and fast gate operation. Modern crystal growth techniques, particularly molecular beam epitaxy, allow the manufacture of semiconductor microstructures such as quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots in which the electrons are only free to move in two, one or zero dimensions, of the optically excited electron-hole pairs in these low respectively. The spatial confinement dimensional structures gives rise to an enhancement of the excitonic nonlinearities. Furthermore, the variations of the microstruture extensions, of the compositions, and of the doping offer great new flexibility in engineering the desired optical properties. Recently, organic chain molecules (such as polydiacetilene) which are different realizations of one dimensional electronic systems, have been shown also to have interesting optical nonlinearities. Both the development and study of optical and electro-optical devices, as well as experimental and theoretical investigations of the underlying optical nonlinearities, are contained in this book.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Federal Republic of Germany

    H. Haug, L. Bányai

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Optical Switching in Low-Dimensional Systems

  • Editors: H. Haug, L. Bányai

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series B:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7278-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43155-5Due: 01 June 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-7280-6Published: 06 April 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-7278-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0258-1221

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 394

  • Topics: Applied and Technical Physics

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