THz-driven nonlinear intersubband dynamics in quantum wells

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 23053-23060

  Dietze, D ^a   Darmo, J ^a   Unterrainer, K ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

COHERENT POPULATION TRANSFER; COLLECTIVE EXCITATIONS; INTER-SUBBAND; INTERSUBBAND TRANSITIONS; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; MODULATION-DOPED; NON EQUILIBRIUM; NONLINEAR OPTICAL EFFECTS; SINGLE CYCLE; STANDARD TEXTBOOK; TERAHERTZ PULSE; THZ FIELDS; THZ PULSE; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS; TWO LEVEL DESCRIPTION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION SCATTERING; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 84867314454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.023053     Document Type: Article

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