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Ultrafast radiative decay of confined excitons due to long-range coherent coupling with radiation wave

Masayoshi Ichimiya, Masaaki Ashida, Hideki Yasuda, Hajime Ishihara, T. Itoh

Published May 1, 2007• 1 citation
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Abstract

Transient grating spectrum and the delay time dependence are investigated in a CuCl thin film. The structures for complex eigenmodes and the ultrafast radiative decay rates of excitons below 200 fs are observed.
DOI
10.1109/qels.2007.4431822

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