Linear and dynamical photoinduced dichroisms of InAs/GaAs self-assembled quantum dots: Population relaxation and decoherence measurements

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Bernardot, F ^a   Aubry, E ^a   Tribollet, J ^a   Testelin, C ^a   Chamarro, M ^a   Lombez, L ^b   Braun, P F ^b   Marie, X ^b   Amand, T ^b   Gerard J M ^c  

^a INSTITUT DES NANOSCIENCES DE PARIS   (France)

^b INSA   (France)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

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EID: 33244456988     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.085301     Document Type: Article

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