抄録
All-optical picosecond gate operation is demonstrated using the spin relaxation in a quantum well etalon. Electron spin-polarization photoexcited by circularly polarized light in GaAs quantum wells decays in picoseconds. With the use of the spin relaxation in a quantum well etalon, all-optical full switching is achieved with a decay time of as fast as 7 ps, by adopting a simple optical differential method, which uses only a quarter-wave plate and a polarizer in addition to the conventional all-optical switching setup.
本文言語 | English |
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ページ(範囲) | 839 |
ページ数 | 1 |
ジャーナル | Applied Physics Letters |
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出版ステータス | Published - 1995 |
外部発表 | はい |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- 物理学および天文学(その他)