Ultrafast infrared-photon-induced optoelectronic switching
Jawad H. Qureshi, Kai Shum · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1999
The dynamics of coherent electron-photon coupling between extended electronic states and a confined electronic state is studied by directly solving the time-dependent Schrodinger equation. A new type of optoelectronic switching device is proposed. We present, as an example, a single quantum well device that may potentially operate at a bandwidth of 3 THz.