Influence of higher Coulomb correlations on optical coherent-control signals from a ZnSe quantum well

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1769-1779

  Breunig, Hans Georg ^a   Voss, Tobias ^a   Rückmann, Ilja ^a   Gutowski, Jürgen ^a   Axt, Vollrath Martin ^b   Kuhn, Tilmann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

COULOMB CORRELATIONS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 0043240800     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.001769     Document Type: Article

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