Intersubband Absorption Saturation in InGaAs-AlAs-AlAsSb Coupled Quantum Wells

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1356-1361

  Gopal, Achanta Venu ^a,b   Simoyama, Takasi ^a   Yoshida, Haruhiko ^a   Kasai, Jun Ichi ^a   Mozume, Teruo ^a   Ishikawa, Hiroshi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SUBSTRATES; SWITCHING;

DENSITY MATRIX THEORY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 0242612006     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2003.818309     Document Type: Article

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