Strongly interacting photons in asymmetric quantum well via resonant tunneling

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 8485-8495

  Sun, H ^a,b   Fan, S L ^a   Feng, X L ^b   Wu, C F ^b   Gong, S Q ^c   Huang, G X ^d   Oh, C H ^b  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PHASE SHIFT; PROBES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ASYMMETRIC QUANTUM WELLS; ELECTRON DISTRIBUTIONS; GROUP VELOCITY MATCHING; INTERACTING PHOTONS; LOW LIGHT LEVEL; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR PHASE SHIFT; SIGNAL PULSE; STRONG INTERACTION;

RESONANT TUNNELING;

EID: 84860121369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.008485     Document Type: Article

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