Exciton-lattice polaritons in multiple-quantum-well-based photonic crystals

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 662-666

  Goldberg, David ^a   Deych, Lev I ^a   Lisyansky, Alexander A ^a   Shi, Zhou ^a   Menon, Vinod M ^a   Tokranov, Vadim ^b   Yakimov, Michael ^b   Oktyabrsky, Serge ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE ATOMS; BLOCH WAVES; COHERENT COUPLING; COHERENT INTERACTION; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; GAAS/ALGAAS QUANTUM WELL; POLARITONS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EXCITONS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SOLIDS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 70350757525     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.190     Document Type: Article

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