Optical bistability in a GaAs-based polariton diode

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 26, 2008, Pages

  Bajoni, Daniele ^a,b   Semenova, Elizaveta ^a   Lemaître, Aristide ^a   Bouchoule, Sophie ^a   Wertz, Esther ^a   Senellart, Pascale ^a   Barbay, Sylvain ^a   Kuszelewicz, Robert ^a   Bloch, Jacqueline ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHONONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

BI STABILITIES; BISTABLE; OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES; OPTICAL POWERS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDES; POLARITON; WEAK COUPLINGS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 58149316203     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.266402     Document Type: Article

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