Phase-Resolved Nonlinear Response of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas under Femtosecond Intersubband Excitation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 474021-474024

  Luo, C W ^a,c   Reimann, K ^a   Woerner, M ^a   Elsaesser, T ^a   Hey, R ^b   Ploog, K H ^b  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b PAUL DRUDE INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERELEKTRONIK   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTRON GAS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OSCILLATIONS; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

FEMTOSECOND PULSES; INTERSUBBAND (IS) TRANSITIONS; RABI OSCILLATIONS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 1442331350     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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