Papers Published

1. Garmire, E. and Jokerst, N.M. and Kost, A. and Danner, A. and Dapkus, P.D., Optical nonlinearities due to carrier transport in semiconductors, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Opt. Phys. (USA), vol. 6 no. 4 (1989), pp. 579 - 87 .
   (last updated on 2007/04/16)

   Abstract:
   A nonlocal nonlinearity results when optically excited carriers move within the internal electric fields of depletion regions, causing field-dependent changes in absorption and/or refractive index. The authors review some recent experimental results and use these concepts in hetero-Schottky barriers and hetero-n-i-p-i structures. They show that extremely sensitive, rather large nonlinearities result

   Keywords:
   carrier mobility;electro-optical effects;light absorption;nonlinear optics;photorefractive effect;refractive index;semiconductors;