Two-photon absorption in CdTe quantum dots

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 6460-6467

  Padilha, Lázaro A ^a,c   Fu, Jie ^b   Hagan, David J ^b   Van Stryland, Eric W ^b   Cesar, Carlos L ^c   Barbosa, Luiz C ^c   Cruz, Carlos H B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Department of Physics ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; GLASS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM TELLURIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR COUNTERS;

CDTE QUANTUM DOTS; EFFECTIVE MASS APPROXIMATION; FREQUENCY DEGENERATE; PHOTON ABSORPTION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 24144490398     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.006460     Document Type: Review

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