DISPERSIVE OPTICAL BISTABILITY OF SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES IN MIDINFRARED REGION

Authors
ZHAO GZ PAN SH
Citation
Gz. Zhao et Sh. Pan, DISPERSIVE OPTICAL BISTABILITY OF SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES IN MIDINFRARED REGION, Solid state communications, 99(8), 1996, pp. 595-600
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Condensed Matter
Journal title
Solid state communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
00381098
Volume
99
Issue
8
Year of publication
1996
Pages
595 - 600
Database
ISI
SICI code
0038-1098(1996)99:8<595:DOBOSS>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
The characteristics of optical bistability (OB) induced by intersubban d transitions (ISBTs) in semiconductor superlattices (SLs) are studied by means of the density matrix method. It is shown that the ISBT-indu ced OB can be realized in a wide frequency range, and its hysteresis l oop is much larger than that of a two-level system. These behaviors of the ISTB-induced OB are intimately related to the electron tunneling effects in SLs. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd