Mid-infrared Ultrafast and Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Semiconductors
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The advent of long-wavelength coherent sources, such as free-electron lasers, optical parametric amplifiers, and Terahertz antennas, has created a new class of opportunities to study small-energy phenomena in solids in the time domain and/or high-intensity regimes. Long-wavelength light can couple with a wide variety of electronic and vibrational excitations in solids. This paper reviews our recent progress in MIR ultrafast optics in bulk and quantum-confined semiconductors.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002