Road to Intelligent Optical Devices: Instrumentation for Characterization of Optical Materials

Abstract

Equipment acquired and preliminary research results utilizing the equipment are reported. A synchronously-pumped optical parametric oscillator and a regenerative Ti:Sapphire amplifier system, both from Coherent, Inc., have been acquired and installed. The equipment has been used for optical characterization of metallo-dielectric photonic crystals (MDPCs) and for realization of electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT) in semiconductor heterostructures. Ordered MDPCs have been successfully fabricated via colloidal assembly. EIT in semiconductors have been demonstrated for the first time in interband optical transitions in GaAs quantum well structures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA420586

Entities

People

  • Hailin Wang
  • Miriam Deutsch

Organizations

  • University of Oregon

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplifiers
  • Assembly
  • Crystals
  • Fabrication
  • Instrumentation
  • Materials
  • Materials Processing
  • Optical Materials
  • Optical Properties
  • Oscillators
  • Photonic Crystals
  • Quantum Wells
  • Self Assembly
  • Semiconductors
  • Students
  • Surface Plasmon Polaritons
  • Transparencies

Fields of Study

  • Materials science
  • Physics

Readers

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

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Quantum Computing