Femtosecond Excitonic Optoelectronics

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 1989, Pages 2586-2595

  Gossard, A C ^a,c   English, J ^a,c   Schmitt Rink, S ^a   Tell, Benjamin ^a   Miller, David A B ^a   Chemla, D S ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES--TRANSIENTS; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

ALUMINUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; ELECTRICAL PULSE GENERATION; EXCITONIC RESPONSE; QUANTUM WELL DEVICES; ULTRAFAST DEVICES;

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

EID: 0024888756     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: 15581713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.40646     Document Type: Article

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