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Saturable transmission in mercury cadmium telluride

John C. Matter, Arthur L. Smirl, Marlan O. Scully

Applied Physics Letters · 1976 · 17 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

We have observed saturable absorption effects in mercury cadmium telluride. The transmission of etched Hg0.39Cd0.61Te saturates by more than a factor of 10 for high pulse energies at the wavelength λ=1.06 μm. The lifetime of this short-lived saturation is measured to be less than 50 psec.

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Parametric Coupling in an Optically Excited Plasma in Ge

C. V. Shank, D. H. Auston · Physical Review Letters · 1975 · 106 citations

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Optical Absorption in HgTe and HgCdTe

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Nonlinear Absorption and Ultrashort Carrier Relaxation Times in Germanium under Irradiation by Picosecond Pulses

C. J. Kennedy, John C. Matter, Arthur L. Smirl et al. · Physical Review Letters · 1974 · 50 citations

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Ultrafast relaxation of optically excited nonequilibrium electron-hole distributions in germanium

Arthur L. Smirl, John C. Matter, Ahmet Elçi et al. · Optics Communications · 1976 · 34 citations

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