Stimulated terahertz emission from intraexcitonic transitions in Cu2O

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Huber, Rupert ^a   Schmid, Ben A ^a   Shen, Y Ron ^a   Chemla, Daniel S ^a   Kaindl, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITONS; LASER PULSES; QUANTUM THEORY; RESONANCE; STIMULATED EMISSION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC RESPONSE; INTERNAL TRANSITIONS; TERAHERTZ EMISSION;

COPPER COMPOUNDS;

EID: 32644479357     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.017402     Document Type: Article

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