ELECTROOPTICAL BISTABILITY IN GAAS/ALAS SUPERLATTICES WITH DIFFERENT MINIBAND WIDTHS

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作者
KAWASHIMA, K
FUJIWARA, K
YAMAMOTO, T
SIGETA, M
KOBAYASHI, K
机构
[1] ATR Optical, Radio Communications Research Laboratories, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-02, Seika-cho
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10.1016/0039-6028(92)91216-X
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O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
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070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
We have studied room temperature Stark-ladder transitions and the operation of self-electro-optic effect devices (SEED) utilizing Wannier-Stark localization in GaAs/AlAs superlattices (SL's) with different miniband widths. Good correlation between multistability and the higher-order Stark-ladder transitions is shown. Dependence on the miniband width of bistability and/or multistability of SEED operation characteristics are investigated.
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