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High Resolution Phonon-assisted Quasi-resonance Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Published on: June 28, 2016
Phonon-wave-induced resonance fluorescence in semiconductor nanostructures: acoustoluminescence in the terahertz
1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Nichtlineare Optik und Quantenelektronik, Technische Universität Berlin, PN 7-1 10623 Berlin, Germany.
Physical Review Letters
|March 16, 2007
Abstract:
Acoustic wave excitation of semiconductor quantum dots generates resonance fluorescence of electronic intersublevel excitations. Our theoretical analysis predicts acoustoluminescence, in particular, a conversion of acoustic into electromagnetic THz waves over a broad spectral range.
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