Quasi-half-cycle terahertz pulse generation via optical rectification in quantum wells using shaped optical pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 1, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 376-384

  Citrin, D S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTRONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OSCILLATIONS; PHASE SHIFT; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; RADIATION; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVEFORMS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE SOURCES; SEMICONDUCTOR HETEROSTRUCTURES; SHAPED OPTICAL PULSES; WAVEPACKETS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 4043126055     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.1.000376     Document Type: Article

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