Two-photon photocurrent autocorrelation using intersubband transitions at nearly-resonant excitation

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1523-1528

  Schneider, Harald ^a,b   Maier, Thomas ^a   Liu, H C ^c   Walther, Martin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SOLID STATE PHYSICS IAF   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITATION ENERGY; OPTICAL RESONATORS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CONTINUUM RESONANCE; NEARLY RESONANT EXCITATION; PHOTOCURRENT AUTOCORRELATION;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OPTICS; PHOTON; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICS; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RAYS; MICROWAVES; OPTICS; PHOTONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 39049085615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.001523     Document Type: Article

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