Four-wave mixing and generation of terahertz radiation in an alternating-strain coupled quantum-well structure

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 721-728

  Paiella, Roberto ^b   Vahala, Kerry J ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT OSCILLATIONS; COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRON TUNNELING; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ALTERNATING STRAIN COUPLED QUANTUM WELL STRUCTURES; DENSITY MATRIX EQUATION; NONLINEAR OPTICAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; STEADY STATE TUNING EXCITATIONS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TUNNELING FREQUENCY; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 0030128211     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.488847     Document Type: Article

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