Su Hui, Chuang Shun Lien
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 61801, USA.
Opt Lett. 2006 Jan 15;31(2):271-3. doi: 10.1364/ol.31.000271.
We demonstrate room-temperature slow light that is electrically and optically controllable by using a quantum-dot (QD) semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) at zero and low bias below the transparency current. The absorption spectrum of the QD SOA exhibits a spectral dip with a corresponding group-index dispersion and group delay owing to coherent population oscillation caused by the interaction of pump and probe laser light near resonance of the first heavy-hole-conduction-state transition. At an optical pump power of approximately 0.3 mW inside the single-mode waveguide without current injection, a group-index change of 3.0 with a bandwidth of 2 GHz was measured. This group-index change can be controlled by injection of electrical current and by changing the optical pump power.
我们展示了一种室温下的慢光,它可以通过使用量子点(QD)半导体光放大器(SOA)在低于透明电流的零偏置和低偏置下进行电学和光学控制。量子点半导体光放大器的吸收光谱由于泵浦光和探测光在第一重空穴 - 导带态跃迁共振附近相互作用引起的相干布居振荡而呈现出一个光谱凹陷,伴有相应的群折射率色散和群延迟。在没有电流注入的单模波导内,当光泵浦功率约为0.3 mW时,测得群折射率变化为3.0,带宽为2 GHz。这种群折射率变化可以通过注入电流和改变光泵浦功率来控制。