• Frontiers of Optoelectronics
  • Vol. 5, Issue 1, 82 (2012)
Yiwen RONG1, Yijie HUO1、*, Edward T. FEI1, Marco FIORENTINO2, Michael R.T. TAN2, Tomasz OCHALSKI3, Guillaume HUYET3, Lars THYLEN4, Marek CHACINSKI4, Theodore I. KAMINS1, and James S. HARRIS1
Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
  • 2Quantum Science Research, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
  • 3Tyndall National Institute, Lee Maltings, Photonics Building, Cork, Ireland
  • 4Photonics and Microwave Engineering Royal Institute of Technology Kista, Stockholm S-164 40, Sweden
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    Yiwen RONG, Yijie HUO, Edward T. FEI, Marco FIORENTINO, Michael R.T. TAN, Tomasz OCHALSKI, Guillaume HUYET, Lars THYLEN, Marek CHACINSKI, Theodore I. KAMINS, James S. HARRIS. High speed optical modulation in Ge quantum wells using quantum confined stark effect[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2012, 5(1): 82 Copy Citation Text show less
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    Yiwen RONG, Yijie HUO, Edward T. FEI, Marco FIORENTINO, Michael R.T. TAN, Tomasz OCHALSKI, Guillaume HUYET, Lars THYLEN, Marek CHACINSKI, Theodore I. KAMINS, James S. HARRIS. High speed optical modulation in Ge quantum wells using quantum confined stark effect[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2012, 5(1): 82
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