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Ultrahigh Off‐Resonant Field Effects in Semiconductors
Author(s) -
Huttner Ulrich,
Kira Mackillo,
Koch Stephan W.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
laser and photonics reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.778
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1863-8899
pISSN - 1863-8880
DOI - 10.1002/lpor.201700049
Subject(s) - semiconductor , physics , ultrashort pulse , excitation , terahertz radiation , nonlinear system , field (mathematics) , harmonic , high harmonic generation , bloch oscillations , microscopic theory , computational physics , optoelectronics , condensed matter physics , quantum mechanics , electric field , laser , mathematics , pure mathematics
The excitation of semiconductors with short, off‐resonant, high‐power terahertz pulses yields extremely nonlinear, ultrafast, dynamical processes including very‐high harmonic generation, the occurence of high‐order sidebands, dynamical Bloch oscillations, as well as quasi‐particle collisions. This review overviews the experimental findings and the microscopic theory used for the consistent quantitative analysis of the observations.