Patterning the second-order optical nonlinearity of asymmetric quantum wells by ion implantation enhanced intermixing

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Janz, S [1 ]
Buchanan, M
van der Meer, P
Wasilewski, ZR
Xu, DX
Piva, P
Mitchell, IV
Akano, UG
Fiore, A
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[1] Natl Res Council Canada, Inst Microstruct Sci, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada
[2] Univ Western Ontario, Dept Phys, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada
[3] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
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10.1063/1.121558
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The change in the second-order nonlinear susceptibility of an asymmetric quantum well (AQW) superlattice induced by ion beam-enhanced intermixing has been measured. The surface-emitted second-harmonic intensities radiated from implanted and masked areas of an AQW waveguide were measured and compared for incident wavelengths between lambda=1480 and 1600 nm. Intermixing resulted in a 60 meV blueshift of the AQW band edge and a uniform suppression of the AQW second-order susceptibility, while the masked AQWs were unchanged. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics.
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