Four-wave mixing in intersubband transitions of a semiconductor quantum well structure

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6582, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Paspalakis, Emmanuel ^a   Kanaki, Aggeliki ^a   Terzis, Andreas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Density matrix; Effective nonlinear Bloch equations; Electron sheet density; Four wave mixing; Intersubband transitions; Rabi frequency; Semiconductor quantum well

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

DENSITY MATRIX EQUATIONS; ELECTRON SHEET DENSITY; INTERSUBBAND TRANSITIONS; NONLINEAR BLOCH EQUATIONS; RABI FREQUENCY; SUBBANDS; WAVE MIXING;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 36048983143     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.722187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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