Microscopic analysis of extreme nonlinear optics of semiconductor nanostructures

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2559-2565

  Golde, Daniel ^a   Meier, Torsten ^a   Koch, Stephan W ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; LASER PULSES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

CARRIER-WAVE RABI FLOPPING; ELECTRONIC DISPERSION; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTION; MOLLOW SPLITTING; SEMICONDUCTOR BLOCH EQUATIONS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 33846052602     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.002559     Document Type: Article

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