Interband nonlinear optical generation in presence of intersubband light in asymmetric quantum wells

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 701-711

  Neogi, Arup ^b,c,d,e,f,g   Takahashi, Yutaka ^b,h,i,j   Kawaguchi, Hitoshi ^{a,b,g,h,k,l,m}  

^a IEEE

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RANI DURGAVATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d VIKRAM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e DEVI AHILYA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f Yamagata University ^*

^g OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^h TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ IBM RESEARCH TOKYO   (Japan)

^j JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

^k NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^l NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL DEVICES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ASYMMETRIC QUANTUM WELLS; INTERBAND NONLINEAR OPTICAL GENERATION; INTERSUBBAND LIGHT; OPTICAL TRANSITION; PERTURBATIONAL DENSITY MATRIX; SECOND ORDER SUSCEPTIBILITY;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0030128803     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.488845     Document Type: Article

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