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The operation principle of a light modulator based on the magnetic or electric field control of the frequency of excitons in a quantum well of an optical microcavity is proposed and theoretically justified. It is shown that the main advantage of the proposed scheme is a large depth of modulation of the radiation intensity. The use of ferromagnetic semiconductors for the formation of exciton states in the quantum well makes possible the creation of a light modulator operating at room temperature in relatively weak magnetic fields.
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Original Russian Text © S.G. Erokhin, L.I. Deych, A.A. Lisyansky, A.B. Granovsky, 2009, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 17, pp. 1–9.
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Erokhin, S.G., Deych, L.I., Lisyansky, A.A. et al. Light modulator on excitons in a quantum well of an optical microcavity. Tech. Phys. Lett. 35, 785–788 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785009090016
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