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Generation of unipolar pulses during interaction between electromagnetic radiation and a lateral semiconductor superlattice

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We theoretically predict the effect of generation of unipolar electromagnetic pulses during interaction between intense terahertz electromagnetic radiation and quantum lateral semiconductor superlattices. It is shown that this effect takes place when a superlattice is irradiated by pulsed signals and is due to the fact that stability of the limit cycles describing the dynamic behavior of the system changes successively with the variation in the external-field amplitude. It is noted that such an effect should also be expected in the response of a low-capacitance Josephson junction to a quasiharmonic forcing.

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  1. Institute of Physics of Microstructures of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

    A. A. Zharov

  2. Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    A. M. Malkin

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 227–234, March 2006.

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Zharov, A.A., Malkin, A.M. Generation of unipolar pulses during interaction between electromagnetic radiation and a lateral semiconductor superlattice. Radiophys Quantum Electron 49, 203–209 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-006-0053-x

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