Adiabatically driven electron dynamics in a resonant photonic band gap: Optical switching of a Bragg periodic semiconductor

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Schaarschmidt, Martin ^a   Förstner, Jens ^a   Knorr, Andreas ^a   Prineas, John P ^b   Nielsen, Nils C ^c   Kuhl, Jürgen ^c   Khitrova, Galina ^d   Gibbs, Hyatt M ^d   Giessen, Harald ^e   Koch, Stephan W ^f  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^f PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; LIGHT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHOTON; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 13944275868     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.233302     Document Type: Article

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