Zener tunneling of light waves in an optical superlattice

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2005, Pages

  Ghulinyan, Mher ^a   Oton, Claudio J ^a,c   Gaburro, Zeno ^a   Pavesi, Lorenzo ^a   Toninelli, Cuostanza ^b   Wiersma, Diederik S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT WAVES; OPTICAL SUPERLATTICES; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD; ZENER TUNNELING;

CRYSTALS; CURRENT DENSITY; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ETCHING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SUPERLATTICES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 18144413107     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.127401     Document Type: Article

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