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The Vectorial Dynamics of Coherent Emission from Excitons

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Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors

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Many nonlinear optical techniques based on ultrafast laser pulses have been used to investigate coherent effects and dephasing processes associated with nonequilibrium carriers and excitons in semiconductors and semiconductor heterostructures [1,2]. One of the techniques that has proven to be very powerful for monitoring the decay of the coherent macroscopic polarization, and the one that has been most frequently used, is four-wave mixing (FWM).

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Smirl, A.L. (2001). The Vectorial Dynamics of Coherent Emission from Excitons. In: Tsen, KT. (eds) Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0203-2_9

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