Heavy-hole and light-hole quantum beats in the polarization state of coherent emission from quantum wells

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 523-531

  Smirl, Arthur L ^a   Chen, X ^a   Buccafusca, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELLIPSOMETRY; FOUR WAVE MIXING; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

HEAVY/LIGHT HOLE QUANTUM BEATS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 0032676405     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.753656     Document Type: Article

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