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Infrared Degenerate Four-wave Mixing with Upconversion Detection for Quantitative Gas Sensing
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Carrier diffusion measurements in InSb by the angular dependence of degenerate four-wave mixing
Optics Letters
|September 3, 2009
Abstract:
Studies of the angular dependence of cw degenerate four-wave mixing in n-type InSb have yielded a value for the diffusion length, l(D), of 60 +/- 2 microm. From this, the dependence of l(D) on photoexcited carrier concentration is calculated. A simple model has been developed to estimate the corresponding parallel-processing capabilities of semi-conductor-based, all-optical, parallel-processing digital computing systems.
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