INTERACTIONS OF COHERENT OPTICAL RADIATION WITH SOLIDS.

Abstract

The study of double-photon absorption, harmonic generation in semiconductors, and the frequency tuning of injection lasers by uniaxial stress are reported. Observations have been made of the two-photon excitation of an electron from the valence to the conduction band in CdS. The radiative recombination emission from exciton and impurity levels subsequent to the simultaneous absorption of two quanta was observed as a function of laser intensity and compared to the emission excited by single-quanta absorption for photons. The frequency of a GaAs laser can be readily tuned by the application of uniaxial stress. Analysis of the frequency changes with stress of diodes prepared in different fashions indicates that different emission processes may be taking place. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 31, 1963
Accession Number
AD0431975

Entities

People

  • N. Ockman
  • R. Braunstein

Organizations

  • Sarnoff Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption
  • Coherent Optical Radiation
  • Compound Semiconductors
  • Conduction Bands
  • Corpuscular Radiation
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Electronics
  • Electrons
  • Elementary Fermions
  • Elementary Particles
  • Emission
  • Energy Bands
  • Excitation
  • Excitons
  • Frequency
  • Radiation
  • Semiconductors

Fields of Study

  • Engineering
  • Physics

Readers

  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.
  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers
  • Microelectronics