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Photon echoes from the absorption continuum of a semiconductor

Stephan Glutsch, Shimshon Bar-Ad, Mary‐Ann Mycek, D. S. Chemla, U. Siegner

Published May 22, 1995• 0 citations
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Abstract

\Ve present solutions for the semiconductor Bloch equations under different excitation conditions.By exciting far above the band gap we provide clear theoretical evidence for a photon echo in the absorption continuum of a semiconductor .

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