Terahertz two-photon quantum well infrared photodetector

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 12279-12284

  Schneider, H ^a   Liu, H C ^b   Winnerl, S ^a   Song, C Y ^b   Walther, M ^c   Helm, M ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

AUTOCORRELATORS; GAAS/ALGAAS QUANTUM WELL; INTERSUBBAND TRANSITIONS; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PULSE ENERGIES; QUADRATIC DETECTION; TWO-PHOTON DETECTORS;

QUANTUM WELL INFRARED PHOTODETECTORS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; PHYSICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ELECTRONS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; PHYSICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTORS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67749101403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.012279     Document Type: Article

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