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H. Haug
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Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Federal Republic of Germany
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L. Bányai
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Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Federal Republic of Germany
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Table of contents (35 chapters)
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Excitons in Low Dimensions
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- L. Angeloni, A. Chiari, M. Collocci, F. Fermi, M. Gurioli, R. Querzoli et al.
Pages 219-231
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- Jørn M. Hvam, Claus Dörnfeld
Pages 233-241
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- A. V. Nurmikko, R. L. Gunshor, L. A. Kolodziejski
Pages 243-250
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- A. Mysyrowicz, D. Lee, Q. Fu, A. V. Nurmikko, R. L. Gunshor, L. A. Kolodziejski
Pages 251-256
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- L. Banyai, I. Galbraith, H. Haug
Pages 257-265
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- J. Kühl, A. Honold, L. Schultheis, C. W. Tu
Pages 267-278
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- A. Miller, R. J. Manning, P. K. Milsom
Pages 279-288
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- M. Jaros, L. D. L. Brown, R. J. Turton
Pages 301-307
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Plasma Nonlinearities in Low Dimensions
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- John Hegarty, K. Tai, W. T. Tsang
Pages 309-320
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- E. O. Göbel, R. Fischer, G. Peter, W. W. Rühle, J. Nagle, K. Ploog
Pages 331-340
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- Benoit Deveaud, Bertrand Lambert, André Chomette, Fabrice Clerot, André Regreny, Jagdeep Shah et al.
Pages 341-352
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- C. Klingshirn, Ch. Weber, D. S. Chemla, D. A. B. Miller, J. E. Cunningham, C. Ell et al.
Pages 353-360
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- A. Forchel, G. Tränkle, U. Cebulla, H. Leier, B. E. Maile
Pages 361-374
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Back Matter
Pages 375-381
About this book
This book contains all the papers presented at the NATO workshop on "Optical Switching in Low Dimensional Systems" held in Marbella, Spain from October 6th to 8th, 1988. Optical switching is a basic function for optical data processing, which is of technological interest because of its potential parallelism and its potential speed. Semiconductors which exhibit resonance enhanced optical nonlinearities in the frequency range close to the band edge are the most intensively studied materials for optical bistability and fast gate operation. Modern crystal growth techniques, particularly molecular beam epitaxy, allow the manufacture of semiconductor microstructures such as quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots in which the electrons are only free to move in two, one or zero dimensions, of the optically excited electron-hole pairs in these low respectively. The spatial confinement dimensional structures gives rise to an enhancement of the excitonic nonlinearities. Furthermore, the variations of the microstruture extensions, of the compositions, and of the doping offer great new flexibility in engineering the desired optical properties. Recently, organic chain molecules (such as polydiacetilene) which are different realizations of one dimensional electronic systems, have been shown also to have interesting optical nonlinearities. Both the development and study of optical and electro-optical devices, as well as experimental and theoretical investigations of the underlying optical nonlinearities, are contained in this book.
Editors and Affiliations
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Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Federal Republic of Germany
H. Haug,
L. Bányai