Optical Switching in Low-Dimensional Systems

Switching Devices.- Integrated Quantum Well Switching Devices.- Intrinsic Optical Bistability and Collective Nonlinear Phenomena in Periodic Coupled Microstructures: Model Experiments.- Carrier Induced Effects of Quantum Well Structures and its Application to Optical Modulators and Optical Switches.- Optical Bistability and Nonlinear Switching in Quantum Well Laser Amplifiers.- Patterned Quantum Well Semiconductor Lasers.- High Injection Effects in Quantum Well Lasers.- Real and Virtual Charge Polarizations in DC Biased Low-Dimensional Semiconductor Structures.- Nonlinear Optical Properties of n-i-p-i and Hetero-n-i-p-i Structures.- Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials.- Excitonic Optical Nonlinearities in Polydiacetilene: The Mechanisms.- Cubic Nonlinear Optical Effects in Conjugated ID ?-Electron Systems.- High-Field Effects, Femtosecond Spectroscopy.- Optical Stark Shift in Quantum Wells.- Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Optically Excited Quantum Well Structures.- Femtosecond Dynamics of Semiconductor Nonlinearities: Theory and Experiments.- Stationary Solutions for the Excitonic Optical Stark Effect in Two and Three Dimensional Semiconductors.- Coherent Nonlinear Edge Dynamics in Semiconductor Quantum Wells.- Exciton Stark Shift : Biexcitonic Origin and Exciton Splitting.- Microcrystallites.- Quantum Size Effects and Photocarrier Dynamics in the Optical Nonlinearities of Semiconductor Microcrystallites.- Optical Nonlinearities and Femtosecond Dynamics of Quantum Confined CdSe Microcrystallites.- Enhanced Optical Nonlinearity and Very Rapid Response due to Excitons in Quantum Wells and Dots.- Excitons in Quantum Boxes.- Excitons in Low Dimensions.- Luminescence of GaAs-AlGaAs MQW Structures under Picosecond and Nanosecond Excitation.- Nonlinearities,Coherence and Dephasing in Layered GaSe and in CdSe Surface Layer.- Excitons in II-VI Compound Semiconductor Superlattices: A Range of Possibilities with ZnSe Based Heterostructures.- Biexcitons in ZnSe Quantum Wells.- Biexcitonic Nonlinearity in Quantum Wires.- Ultrafast Dynamics of Excitons in GaAs Single Quantum Wells.- Transient Optical Nonlinearities in Multiple Quantum Well Structures.- Excitons in Thin Films.- Band Structure Engineering of Non-Linear Response in Semiconductor Superlattices.- Plasma Nonlinearities in Low Dimensions.- Spectral Holeburning and Four-Wave Mixing in InGaAs/InP Quantum Wells.- Excitonic Enhancement of Stimulated Recombination in GaAs/AlGaAs Multiple Quantum Wells.- Carrier Relaxation and Recombination in (GaAs)/(AlAs) Short Period Superlattices.- Picosecond and Subpicosecond Luminescence of GaAs/GaAlAs Superlattices.- The Electron-Hole Plasma in Quasi Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Semiconductors.- Optical Spectroscopy on Two- and One-Dimensional Semiconductor Structures.- Participants.