Rabi flopping of charge and spin currents generated by ultrafast two-colour photoexcitation of semiconductor quantum wells

Solid State Communications

Volumn 145, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 61-65

  Pasenow, B ^a   Duc, H T ^a,b   Meier, T ^a,c   Koch, S W ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b Vietnam National University Institute of Physics   (Viet Nam)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

A. Nanostructures; A. Semiconductors; D. Optical properties; E. Nonlinear optics

Indexed keywords

NANOSTRUCTURES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOEXCITATION; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

BLOCH EQUATIONS; PHOTOTRANSPORT; RABI FLOPPING OF CHARGE; SPIN CURRENTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 36249012525     PISSN: 00381098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssc.2007.09.029     Document Type: Article

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