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- Editors:
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Emmanuel Rosencher
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Thomson-CSF, Central Research Laboratory, Orsay, France
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Børge Vinter
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Thomson-CSF, Central Research Laboratory, Orsay, France
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Barry Levine
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AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Nonlinear Optics
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- Gang Sun, Jacob B. Khurgin
Pages 219-226
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- Kang L. Wang, S. K. Chun, R. P. G. Karunasiri
Pages 227-241
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Other Quantum Systems
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- P. A. Badoz, L. Pahun, Y. Campidelli, F. Arnaud d’Avitaya
Pages 243-251
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- H. Hertle, F. Schäffler, A. Zrenner, E. Gornik, G. Abstreiter
Pages 253-260
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Physics of Intersubband Transitions
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- E. Cohen, E. Ehrenfreund, Y. Garini, M. Olszakier, Arza Ron
Pages 263-273
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- B. Deveaud, A. Chomette, F. Clérot, A. Regreny
Pages 275-286
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- M. O. Manasreh, F. Szmulowicz, T. Vaughan, K. R. Evans, C. E. Stutz, D. W. Fischer
Pages 287-297
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- E. Martinet, F. Luc, E. Rosencher, Ph. Bois, E. Costard, S. Delaître et al.
Pages 299-308
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- U. Plödereder, T. Dahinten, A. Seilmeier, G. Weimann
Pages 309-318
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Back Matter
Pages 341-345
About this book
This book contains the lectures delivered at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the "Intersubband Transistions in Quantum Wells" held in Cargese, France, between the t 9 h and the 14th of September 1991. The urge for this Workshop was justified by the impressive growth of work dealing with this subject during the last two or three years. Indeed, thanks to recent progresses of epitaxial growth techniques, such as Molecular Beam Epitaxy, it is now possible to realize semiconductor layers ( e.g. GaAs) with thicknesses controlled within one atomic layer, sandwiched between insulating layers (e.g. AlGaAs). When the semiconducting layer is very thin, i.e. less than 15 nm, the energy of the carriers corresponding to their motion perpendicular to these layers is quantized, forming subbands of allowed energies. Because of the low effective masses in these semiconducting materials, the oscillator strengths corresponding to intersubband transitions are extremely large and quantum optical effects become giant in the 5 - 20 ~ range: photoionization, optical nonlinearities, ... Moreover, a great theoretical surprise is that - thanks to the robustness of the effective mass theory - these quantum wells are a real life materialization of our old text book one-dimensional quantum well ideal. Complex physical phenomena may then be investigated on a simple model system.