Exciton relaxation and dephasing in quantum-dot amplifiers from room to cryogenic temperature

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 984-991

  Borri, P ^a   Langbein, W ^a   Schneider, S ^a   Woggon, U ^a   Sellin, R L ^b   Ouyang, D ^b   Bimberg, D ^b  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Four wave mixing (FWM); Quantum dot (QD) amplifiers; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CRYOGENICS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; EXCITONS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; GROUND STATE; PHONONS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

COULOMB INTERACTION; DEPHASING PROCESS; DIFFERENTIAL TRANSMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; HETERODYNE DETECTION TECHNIQUE; INJECTION CURRENT; QUANTUM DOT AMPLIFIERS; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0036765468     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2002.804250     Document Type: Article

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