Showing papers in "Progress in Quantum Electronics in 1997"

TL;DR: In this paper, the basic mechanisms used in laser cooling and trapping, and illustrates the development of the field by describing a selection of key experiments, are discussed, and a review of the key experiments is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of laser-induced breakdown in aqueous media were investigated and applications of laser induced breakdown in liquids in liquids were discussed. But none of these applications were considered in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of present theoretical works on the exploitation of the Mueller matrix and present an algorithm, based on the knowledge of experimental noise, to classify experimental Mueller matrices according to their polarimetric characteristics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on the historic background of tunneling and the problems of the interpretation of electronic tunneling data, and the experimental data on the tunneling time of electromagnetic wave packets and signals is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the results of techniques that have been used recently to minimise the deleterious effect of Auger recombination processes in interband detectors and (bi-polar) lasers, and of phonon scattering in quantum well photodetectors and quantum cascade (QC) lasers are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a general differential equation which is characteristic of the relevant semiconductor equations is presented and discussed, and a discretization equation based on the general differential equations is next determined.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the problem of finding bounds for the degree of polarization of an incoherent mixture of partially polarized beams and analyze the behavior of entropy production during the irreversible evolution of the state of polarization.