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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Theory Of Enhanced Optical Nonlinearities In Quantum Dots

Juan Francisco Lam

Published Aug 18, 1988• 0 citations
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Abstract

A discussion of the exciton regime of quantum dots is presented. We predict the possibility of enhancement of the optical nonlinearities due to exciton quantization. Applications to the dynamic Stark effect and two-wave mixing processes are described.
DOI
10.1117/12.947319

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