Scaling of the saturation energy in microcavity saturable absorber devices
Massoubre, David and Shen, A. and Decobert, J. and Dion, J. and Harmand, J.C. and Landreau, J. and Oudar, J.L. (2006) Scaling of the saturation energy in microcavity saturable absorber devices. Applied Physics Letters, 88 (15). pp. 153513-153515. ISSN 0003-6951
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Several all-optical switching devices based on quantum well microcavity structures have been studied in view of their possible use for all-optical regeneration of telecommunication signals. Experiments and modeling show that the saturation energy is inversely proportional to a scaling factor describing the enhancement of the intracavity intensity at the Fabry-Perot resonance. As a result the saturation energy is approximately proportional to the number of quantum wells in the device and can be kept small by a proper cavity design
Item type: Article ID code: 38073 Dates: DateEvent13 April 2006PublishedKeywords: saturation energy , microcavity saturable absorber devices , absorber devices , microcavities, Optics. Light, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) Subjects: Science > Physics > Optics. Light Department: Faculty of Science > Physics > Institute of Photonics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 01 Mar 2012 15:09 Last modified: 20 Jan 2021 20:01 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/38073