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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/International Quantum Electronics Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies
  • Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2004),
  • paper CFJ1

Ultrafast all-optical switching by pulse-induced birefringence in a multi-quantum well semiconductor optical amplifier

H. Ju, S. Zhang, H. de Waardt, G.D. Khoe, and H.J.S. Dorren

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Abstract

We have demonstrated femtosecond pulse-induced nonlinear birefringence in a multiquantum well semiconductor optical amplifier for all-optical switching. Coherent nonlinear optical effects such as two-photon absorption could be responsible for the ultrashort-transient birefringence.

© 2004 Optical Society of America

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