Chirped-pulse control of carriers in semiconductors: The role of many-body effects

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2715-2727

  Fainberg, Boris D ^a,b   Levinsky, B ^a   Gorbunov, V A ^a  

^a HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

BLOCH EQUATION; CHIRPED PULSE CONTROL; INTRAPULSE PUMP DUMP PROCESS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 30844445568     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.002715     Document Type: Article

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