Intense Terahertz Excitation of Semiconductors

Sergey Ganichev, Willi Prettl - Collection Science Pulications

430 pages, parution le 15/01/2006

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Intense Terahertz Excitation of Semiconductors presents the first comprehensive treatment of high-power terahertz applications to semiconductors and low-dimensional semiconductor structures. Terahertz properties of semiconductors are in the center of scientific activities because of the need of high-speed electronics. This research monograph brigdes the gap between microwave physics and photonics. It focuses on a core topic of semiconductor physics providing a full description of the state of the art of the field. The reader is introduced to new physical phenomena which occur in the terahertz frequency range at the transition from semi-classical physics with a classical field amplitude to the fully quantized limit with photons. The book covers a wide range of optical, optoelectronic, and nonlinear transport processes, presenting experimental results, clearly visualizing models and basic theories. Background information for future work and exhaustive references of current literature are given. A particularly valuable feature is through the discussion of various technical aspects of the terahertz range like the generation of high-power coherent radiation, optical components, instrumentation, and detection schemes of short intense radiation impulses. The book complements, for the first time in form of a monograph, previous books on infrared physics which dealt with low-power optical and opto-electronic processes. It will be useful not only to scientists but also to advanced students who are interested in terahertz research.

Readership: Professionals (academe and industry) and graduate students in laser and semiconductor physics, optics and photonics.

L'auteur - Sergey Ganichev

Sergey Ganichev, Department of Physics, University of Regensburg

L'auteur - Willi Prettl

Willi Prettl, Department of Physics, University of Regensburg

Sommaire

Experimental Technique
Tunneling in Terahertz Fields
Multi-Photon Excitation Beyond the Perturbative Limit
Saturation of Absorption
Electron Gas Heating
Terahertz Nonlinear Optics
Terahertz Radiation Induced Currents
Bloch Oscillations

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Sergey Ganichev, Willi Prettl
Collection	Science Pulications
Parution	15/01/2006
Nb. de pages	430
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	875g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780198528302
ISBN13	978-0-19-852830-2