Chirping of an optical transition by an ultrafast acoustic soliton train in a semiconductor quantum well

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Scherbakov, A V ^a,b   Van Capel, P J S ^c   Akimov, A V ^a,b   Dijkhuis, J I ^c   Yakovlev, D R ^a,b   Berstermann, T ^a   Bayer, M ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL TRANSITIONS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

ACOUSTIC SOLITONS; KORTEWEG-DE VRIES EQUATION; ULTRAFAST FREQUENCY MODULATION;

SOLITONS;

EID: 34547696916     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.057402     Document Type: Article

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