Ultrafast pulse generation in photoconductive switches

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1664-1671

  Keil, U D ^a   Dykaar, D R ^b,c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTOCONDUCTING DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SUBSTRATES;

ELECTROOPTIC SAMPLING; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY EFFECTS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE SWITCHES; PHOTOGENERATED CARRIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATES; ULTRAFAST PULSE GENERATION; VOLTAGE DEPENDENT REFLECTIVITY MEASUREMENT;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0030243653     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.535372     Document Type: Article

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