Terahertz pulse induced intervalley scattering in photoexcited GaAs

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 9620-9629

  Su, F H ^a   Blanchard, F ^b   Sharma, G ^b   Razzari, L ^b,c   Ayesheshim, A ^a   Cocker, T L ^a   Titova, L V ^a   Ozaki, T ^b   Kieffer, J C ^b   Morandotti, R ^b   Reid, M ^d   Hegmann, F A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; TERAHERTZ WAVES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC FIELD INDUCED; ELECTRON TRANSPORT DYNAMICS; INTERVALLEY SCATTERING; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; OPTICAL PUMP - THZ PROBES; PICOSECOND TIME SCALE; SCATTERING RATES; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

GALLIUM; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

ARSENICALS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GALLIUM; OPTICAL DEVICES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 66849126060     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.009620     Document Type: Article

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