The authors review the physics of ultrafast dynamics in semiconductors and their
heterostructures, including both the observed experimental phenomena and the theoretical …

The authors review the nonlinear optical properties of semiconductor quantum wells that are
grown inside high-Q Bragg-mirror microcavities. Light-matter coupling in this system is …

The field of ultrafast spectroscopy of semiconductors and their nanostruc tures continues to
be an active field of research. Exciting new developments have taken place since the first …

The onset and decay of photoconductivity in bulk GaAs has been measured with 200-fs
temporal resolution using time-resolved THz spectroscopy. A low carrier density (< 2× 10 16 …

This chapter gives an introduction to interacting many-body systems. Interaction effects give
rise to collective behavior, dominated by mean field effects, as well as to correlations. We …

The Monte Carlo method is inherently parallel and the extensive and rapid development in
parallel computers, computational clusters and grids has resulted in renewed and …

The progression of carrier confinement from quantum wells to quantum dots has received
considerable interests because of the potential to improve the semiconductor laser …

Abstract Space-dependent Maxwell-Bloch equations are derived for the description of
spatiotemporal dynamics of spatially inhomogeneous semiconductor lasers. The dynamics …

A microscopic theory for excitonic nonlinearities and light propagation in semiconductor
microcavities is applied to study normal-mode coupling (NMC) for varying electron-hole-pair …

A theory for describing nonequilibrium dynamics in a semiconductor quantum-dot laser is
presented. This theory is applied to a microcavity laser with a gain region consisting of an …