Ultrafast ac Stark effect switching of the active photonic band gap from Bragg-periodic semiconductor quantum wells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 4332-4334

  Prineas, John P ^a   Zhou, J Y ^a   Kuhl, J ^a   Gibbs, H M ^b   Khitrova, G ^b   Koch, S W ^c   Knorr, A ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CHARGE CARRIERS; ENERGY GAP; EXCITONS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SWITCHING; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

PHOTONIC BAND GAP;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 0037011607     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1526455     Document Type: Article

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