All-optical injection of ballistic electrical currents in unbiased silicon

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 632-635

  Costa, Louis ^a   Betz, Markus ^a   Spasenović, Marko ^a   Bristow, Alan D ^a   Van Driel, Henry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLISTICS; ENERGY GAP; MODULATORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; SILICON; TERAHERTZ WAVES; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

CURRENT INJECTIONS; ELECTRICAL CURRENT; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; FUNDAMENTAL WAVELENGTH; INTEGRATED TRANSISTORS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; SECOND ORDER OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34548431662     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys674     Document Type: Article

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