Ultrafast heating and switching of a semiconductor optical amplifier using half-cycle terahertz pulses

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 24, 1998, Pages R15969-R15972

  Hughes, S ^a   Citrin, D ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001105804     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.58.R15969     Document Type: Article

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