Coherent phenomena in a semiconductor quantum well system: Effects of double dark states

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6321, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Voutsinas, Evangelos ^a,b   Fountoulakis, Antonios ^a   Terzis, Andreas F ^a   Boviatsis, John ^b   Baskoutas, Sotirios ^a   Paspalakis, Emmanuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dark states; Semiconductor quantum well; Slow light; Transparency; Tunneling induced interference

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; LIGHT POLARIZATION; TRANSPARENCY;

DARK STATES; SLOW LIGHT; TUNNELING INDUCED INTERFERENCE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 33751045559     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.678994     Document Type: Conference Paper

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