Carrier-envelope phase control of carrier-wave Rabi flopping in asymmetric semiparabolic quantum well

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1487-1496

  Zhang, Chaojin ^a,b   Song, Xiaohong ^a   Yang, Weifeng ^a   Xu, Zhizhan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER COMMUNICATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; PHASE CONTROL; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE CONTROL; CARRIER-WAVES; SEMIPARABOLIC QUANTUM WELL; ULTRASHORT TIMESCALE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 39049104374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.001487     Document Type: Article

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