TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garmire, Elsa 
AU  - Garmire,Elsa M.
AU  - Kost,Alan
TI  - Nonlinear optics in semiconductors
T2  - Semiconductors and semimetals
SN  - 0127521674
U1  - 535.2 G185N 22
PY  - 1999///
CY  - San Diego
PB  - Academic Press
KW  - Nonlinear optics
KW  - Semiconductors
KW  - Optical properties
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Physics
KW  - Optics & Light
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Cover; Nonlinear Optics in Semiconductors I; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Chapter 1. Resonant Optical Nonlinearities in Semiconductors; I. Introduction; II. Survey of Nonlinear Optical Mechanisms; III. Modeling And Measuring Optical Nonlinearity; IV. Resonant Optical Nonlinearity in GaAs Quantum Wells; V. Summary of Band-Filling Nonlinearities; VI. Figure of Merit; VII. Optical Nonlinearity From Free Carrier Absorption and Refraction; VIII. Optothermal Optical Nonlinearities; IX. All-Optical Switching; X. Summary and Conclusions; List of Abbreviations and AcronymsReferences; Chapter 2. Optical Nonlinearities in Semiconductors Enhanced by Carrier Transport; List of Acronyms; I. Introduction; II. Experimental Results on Optical Nonlinearities Influenced by Carrier Transport; III. Field Dependence of The Optical Properties of Semiconductors; IV. Experimental Configurations; V. Characteristics of Experimental Devices That Utilize Self-Modulation; References; Chapter 3. Ultrafast Transient Nonlinear Optical Processes in Semiconductors; I. Introduction; II. Near-Band-Gap Excitations; III. Time Scales and Dynamic Trends; IV. A Purely Coherent Process Involving Only Virtual Electron-Hole Pairs: The Excitonic Optical Stark EffectV. Fundamentals of Two-particle Correlation Effects Involving Real Electron-Hole Pairs; VI. Applications: Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Electronic States in Heterostructures; VII. Fundamentals of Four-Particle Correlation Effects Involving Real Electron-Hole Pairs; VIII. Dynamics in The Quantum Kinetics Regime; IX. Conclusion; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; References; Chapter 4. Optical Nonlinearities in The Transparency Region of Bulk Semiconductors; I. Introduction; II. BackgroundIII. Theory of Bound-Electronic Nonlinearities: Two-Band Model; IV. Bound-Electronic Optical Nonlinearities in Active Semiconductors; V. Free-Carrier Nonlinearities; VI. Experimental Methods; VII. Applications; VIII. Conclusion; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; References; Chapter 5. Photorefractivity in Semiconductors; I. Introduction; II. Space-Charge Grating Formation; III. Beam Coupling; II. Four-Wave Mixing; V. Enhanced Wave-Mixing Techniques; VI. Bulk Semiconductors; VII. Multiple Quantum Wells; VIII. Selected Applications; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; References
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