Ultrafast carrier dynamics and nonlinear optical response of InAsP nanowires

Junting Liu; He Yang; Vladislav Khayrudinov; Harri Lipsanen; Hongkun Nie; Kejian Yang; Baitao Zhang; Jingliang He

doi:10.1364/PRJ.430172

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