Analysis of transient interband light modulation by ultrashort intersubband resonant light pulses in semiconductor quantum wells

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2060-2070

  Neogi, Arup ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i}   Takahashi, Y ^b   Kawaguchi, Hitoshi ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RANI DURGAVATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e VIKRAM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^g Yamagata University ^*  (Japan)

^h Applied Physics Society of   (Japan)

ⁱ NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonlinear optics; Optical switches; Optoelectronic devices; Semiconductor device modeling; Semiconductor superlattices; Semiconductor switches; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

COUPLED BLOCH EQUATIONS; INTERSUBBAND COUPLING LIGHT; RESONANT LIGHT PULSES;

LIGHT MODULATION;

EID: 0031275056     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.641321     Document Type: Article

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