Optoelectronic Device Based on Gunn Effect Extended Diode Structure

• Authors: I. Tralle
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We discuss the possibility of light control by means of light diffraction by space charge waves which are the periodic domain trains induced at some circumstances in GaAs Gunn effect diode. The two possible regimes of the proposed device are considered: the first one which is analogous to the Bragg diffraction in case of light-acoustic diffraction and the other one, which we call "intermediate", since the parameter Q which distinguishes the Raman-Nath (Q<1) and the Bragg diffraction (Q>10), in this case is≈1 (actually, only bit smaller than 1). Among the advantages of this hypothetical device are the simpler control of operation and perhaps, possibility to couple it with the waveguides and switchers for surface electromagnetic waves and other miniaturized photonic circuits.

Keywords

EN

42.25.Fx; 42.79.Dj; 42.79.Gn; 42.82.Et; 42.82.Fv

Discipline

• 42.79.Gn: Optical waveguides and couplers(for fiber waveguides and waveguides in integrated optics, see 42.81.Qb and 42.82.Et, respectively)
• 42.25.Fx: Diffraction and scattering
• 42.79.Dj: Gratings(for holographic gratings, see 42.40.Eq)
• 42.82.Fv: Hybrid systems
• 42.82.Et: Waveguides, couplers, and arrays(for fiber waveguides, see 42.81.Qb)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 111
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 835-846

Dates

published

2007-06

received

2006-09-11

Contributors

author

I. Tralle

• Institute of Physics, University of Rzeszów, al. Rejtana 16A, 35-310 Rzeszów, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.111.835