Valence-band mixing and continuum excitons in the excitonic model for coherent terahertz radiation from quantum wells

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1057-1065

  Sengers, Adriaan J ^a   Tsang, Leung ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; EXCITONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM THEORY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM DEPENDENCE; CONTINUUM EXCITONS; FANO RESONANCE; OPTICAL BLOCH EQUATIONS; RUNGE-KUTTA METHOD; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; VALENCE BAND MIXING;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 0031142087     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.14.001057     Document Type: Article

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