Laser & Photonics Reviews 2017-07-07

Ultrahigh Off-Resonant Field Effects in Semiconductors

Ulrich Huttner, Mackillo Kira, Stephan W. Koch

Index: 10.1002/lpor.201700049

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Abstract

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.