Terahertz radiation from a shallow incidence-angle InAs emitter in a magnetic field irradiated with femtosecond laser pulses

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1369-1371

  Ono, Shingo ^a,b   Tsukamoto, Takeyo ^a   Kawahata, Eiji ^b   Yano, Takayuki ^b   Ohtake, Hideyuki ^b   Sarukura, Nobuhiko ^b,c  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACES;

INCIDENCE ANGLE;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS;

EID: 0000389720     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.001369     Document Type: Article

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