Coherent phonon-induced optical modulation in semiconductors at terahertz frequencies

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hase, Muneaki ^a   Katsuragawa, Masayuki ^b   Constantinescu, Anca Monia ^c   Petek, Hrvoje ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE AND PHASE MODULATIONS; FREQUENCY REGIONS; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; LONGITUDINAL OPTICAL; PHONON FREQUENCIES; PHONON-PLASMON COUPLED MODE; POLARIZABILITY DENSITY; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES;

GALLIUM ARSENIDE; LASER PULSES; PHASE MODULATION; POLARIZATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SILICON;

PHONONS;

EID: 84878227196     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/5/055018     Document Type: Article

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