Coherent control of a THz intersubband polarization in a voltage controlled single quantum well

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Wagner, M ^a   Helm, M ^a   Sherwin, M S ^b   Stehr, D ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT CONTROL; DELAYED PULSE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FAR-INFRARED; GAAS/ALGAAS QUANTUM WELL; INDUCED POLARIZATION; INTER-SUBBAND; LOW TEMPERATURES; MACROSCOPIC POLARIZATION; MODEL CALCULATIONS; OPTICAL BLOCH EQUATION; PICOSECONDS; RELATIVE TIME; SINGLE QUANTUM WELL; SPECTRAL REGION; TERAHERTZ PULSE; TIME DOMAIN; VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED;

DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TIME SWITCHES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 80053463737     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3644988     Document Type: Article

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