Non-Linear Optical Interactions in Semiconductors.

Abstract

The first tunable CW laser action in both mode-locked and unmode-locked (in both straight and ring cavity) configurations has been demonstrated. The gain media were platelets of CdS, CdSe, InGaAsP, and HgCdTe. Pulse as short as 2.8 Psec and continous tunability between .5 micrometers and 2.5 micrometers has been achieved. Picosecond spectroscopy of bound excitons, using a synchronously operating streak camera; and picosecond photoelectric emission from a Zirconium metal surface have been studied. The first experimental technique for compensating the pulse broading in single-mode optical fibers using the slow anomalous pulse propagation in the exciton-polariton resonance in a Direct-gap semiconductor has been demonstrated. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA129995

Entities

People

  • M. M. Salour

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Bulk Semiconductors
  • Dye Lasers
  • Electronics
  • Electrons
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Combs
  • Laser Applications
  • Laser Spectroscopy
  • Lasers
  • Light (Electromagnetic Radiation)
  • Liquid Dye Lasers
  • Massachusetts
  • Nonlinear Optics
  • Semiconductor Lasers
  • Semiconductors
  • Streak Cameras

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics