Quasiadiabatic following of femtosecond optical pulses in a weakly excited semiconductor

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 1569-1576

  Mel'nikov I V ^a   Mihalache, D ^a   Moldoveanu, F ^b   Panoiu, N C ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMIC PHYSICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; EXCITONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; POLARIZATION; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SOLITONS;

MAXWELL-BLOCH EQUATION; OPTICAL PULSES;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0031209149     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.56.1569     Document Type: Article

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