Transient optical properties of dielectrics and semiconductors excited by an ultrashort laser pulse

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2014, Pages C36-C43

  Gamaly, E G ^a   Rode, A V ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTRONS; ENERGY GAP; IONIZATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PERMITTIVITY; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SILICA; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WIDE BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS;

ELECTRON COLLISION; FEMTOSECOND EXCITATION; FLUENCE DISTRIBUTION; ON-ELECTRON DENSITY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS; TRANSIENT PROPERTY; WIDE BAND-GAP MATERIAL;

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 84911110474     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: 15208540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.31.000C36     Document Type: Article

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