Inhomogeneous dephasing of heavy-hole and light-hole exciton coherences in GaAs quantum wells

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 664-670

  Spivey, Amelia G V ^a,b   Cundiff, Steven T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; EXCITONS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FIRST-SECOND PULSE DELAY; HEAVY-HOLE (HH) EXCITON COHERENCE; INHOMOGENEOUS DEPHASING; LIGHT-HOLE (LH) EXCITON COHERENCE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 34047189791     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.24.000664     Document Type: Article

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