Carrier-envelope-phase dependent coherence in double quantum wells

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 15402-15408

  Yang, Wen Xing ^a,b   Yang, Xiaoxue ^b   Lee, Ray Kuang ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM THEORY; QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE; DOUBLE QUANTUM WELL; DOUBLE QUANTUM WELL STRUCTURES; FANO-TYPE INTERFERENCE; FEW-CYCLE LASER PULSE; QUANTUM BEAT;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 69949103726     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.015402     Document Type: Article

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