Goldstone mode of optical parametric oscillators in planar semiconductor microcavities in the strong-coupling regime

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Wouters, Michiel ^a,b   Carusotto, Iacopo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; MICROCAVITIES; PHASE CONTROL; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

GOLDSTONE MODE; STRONG-COUPLING REGIME; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUM;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 35148842882     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.043807     Document Type: Article

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