Search Results - "Smirl, A.L."

Measurement of the anisotropy of two-photon absorption coefficients in zincblende semiconductors by Dvorak, M.D., Schroeder, W.A., Andersen, D.R., Smirl, A.L., Wherrett, B.S.

“…The imaginary parts of all of the independent two-photon-resonant susceptibility tensor elements in GaAs and CdTe are determined by using a two-beam coupling…”
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Picosecond photorefractive and free-carrier transient energy transfer in GaAs at 1 mu m by Smirl, A.L., Valley, G.C., Bohnert, K.M., Boggess, T.F.

“…The strength, formation, and decay of photorefractive and free-carrier gratings written in GaAs by 43-ps pulses at a wavelength of 1 mu m are investigated…”
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Scaling of Stark-shifted per-carrier nonlinearities in multiple-quantum-well device structures by Cartwright, A.N., Huang, X.R., Smirl, A.L.

“…We demonstrate simple rules for the scaling of per-carrier Stark-shifted nonlinearities with well number, electric field, amplitude and width of the excitonic…”
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Transverse optical patterns for ultra-low-light-level all-optical switching by Dawes, A.M.C., Gauthier, D.J., Schumacher, S., Kwong, N.H., Binder, R., Smirl, A.L.

“…We review recent theoretical and experimental efforts toward developing an all‐optical switch based on transverse optical patterns. Transverse optical patterns…”
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Interference-induced slow and fast light in bulk semiconductors by Gu, B., Kwong, N.H., Binder, R., Smirl, A.L.

“…The interference between the two exciton polaritons in semiconductors is predicted to give a time delay for traversing light pulses that is unrelated to the…”
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Spin Hall Effect of Light in a semiconductor by Menard, J.-M., Mattacchione, A., Sipe, J.E., Smirl, A.L., van Driel, H.M.

“…We demonstrate the spatial separation of right and left circularly polarized components of a linear polarized beam non-normally incident at an air-GaAs…”
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All-optical injection, control, and detection of ballistic spin and charge currents in group IV semiconductors by Smirl, A.L., Loren, E.J., Ruzicka, B.A., Werake, L.K., Hui Zhao, van Driel, H.M.

“…Ballistic charge currents are injected into Ge and Si and pure spin currents into Ge using quantum interference techniques and are spatially and temporally…”
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Theory of ultrafast optical gain in the nonlinear reflectivity of semiconductor Bragg structures by Nguyen, D.T., Kwong, N.H., Binder, R., Smirl, A.L.

“…We present a microscopic theory for the nonlinear reflection of semiconductor Bragg structures. Our theoretical results showing ultrafast optical gain…”
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Heavy-hole and light-hole quantum beats in the polarization state of coherent emission from quantum wells by Smirl, A.L., Chen, X., Buccafusca, O.

“…Dual-channel spectral interferometry is used to measure the vectorial dynamics of the the four-wave-mixing signal from a GaAs-AlGaAs multiple quantum well when…”
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Quantum interference generation and control of ballistic charge and spin hall currents by Hui Zhao, Loren, E.J., van Driel, H.M., Smirl, A.L.

“…Ballistic pure spin currents generated via quantum interference in the absorption of femtosecond pulses are demonstrated to produce transverse ballistic Hall…”
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Dipole quantum beats of dynamically interacting excitons by Stevens, M.J., Zetian Mi, Smirl, A.L., Steel, D.G.

“…Summary form only given. We use spectral interferometry and temporal gating techniques to investigate the time-integrated quantum beats (TI-QBs) involving the…”
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Electrooptic polarization modulation in [110]-oriented GaAs-InGaAs multiple quantum wells by Snelling, M.J., Harken, D.R., Smirl, A.L., Towe, E.

“…An electrooptic modulator that is sensitive to the polarization state of transmitted light is demonstrated by using the intrinsic optical anisotropy of…”
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Theory of transient energy transfer in gallium arsenide by Valley, G.C., Smirl, A.L.

“…Numerical calculations are given for optical two-beam coupling in undoped, semi-insulating GaAs using picosecond pulses. Absorption at the intrinsic defect…”
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Simultaneous measurement of the two-photon coefficient and free-carrier cross section above the bandgap of crystalline silicon by Boggess, T., Bohnert, K., Mansour, K., Moss, S., Boyd, I., Smirl, A.

“…We report what is to our knowledge the first simultaneous measurement of the two-photon absorption coefficient and the free-carrier cross section above the…”
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Dark spatial soliton propagation in bulk ZnSe by Skinner, S.R., Allan, G.R., Andersen, D.R., Smirl, A.L.

“…The propagation of dark spatial solitons was experimentally demonstrated in bulk ZnSe at lambda =532 nm using a picosecond laser system. Several propagation…”
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The effects of strain and crystallographic orientation on nonlinearities in quantum well devices by Smirl, A.L., Towe, E.

“…The author discusses their progress in investigating the influences of crystallographic orientation and of strain on the nonlinear and electro-optical…”
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An interdigitated stacked p-i-n multiple-quantum-well modulator by Huang, X.R., Cheung, S.K., Cartwright, A.N., Smirl, A.L., Tseng, W.F.

“…We demonstrate low-voltage operation of a strained InGaAs-GaAs interdigitated hetero n-i-p-i modulator (or stacked SEED) that is grown and fabricated using a…”
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Instability induced all-optical switching in planar semiconductor microcavities by Schumacher, S., Kwong, N.H., Binder, R., Smirl, A.L.

“…Using a microscopic theory, we predict all-optical switching in planar semiconductor micro-cavities where a weak beam switches a stronger signal. The scheme is…”
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Coherent all-optical polarization switching in quantum wells by Gansen, E.J., Jarasiunas, K., Hawkins, S.A., Stevens, M.J., Smirl, A.L.

“…A coherent all-optical nonlinear polarization switch based on exciton-exciton correlations is demonstrated in a multiple-quantum-well semiconductor structure…”
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The connection between phenomenological few-level models and microscopic theories in the nonlinear optics of semiconductors by Kwong, N.H., Rumyantsev, I., Binder, R., Smirl, A.L.

“…We demonstrate a formal similarity between the evolution equation of the third-order interband polarization in a phenomenological model and that in microscopic…”
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