Controllable optical bistability in a four-subband semiconductor quantum well system

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 15, 2007, Pages

  Li, Jia Hua ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 34247537943     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.155329     Document Type: Article

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