Degenerate four-wave-mixing signals from a dc- and ac-driven semiconductor superlattice

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 5759-5769

  Liu, R ^a   Zhu, B ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

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EID: 0001332525     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.5759     Document Type: Article

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