FAST RECOVERY OF EXCITONIC ABSORPTION BLEACHING IN TUNNELING BIQUANTUM WELL STRUCTURES

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TACKEUCHI, A
MUTO, S
INATA, T
FUJII, T
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[1] Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd., Atsugi 243-01
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10.1063/1.105106
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O59 [应用物理学];
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This letter demonstrates the fast recovery from excitonic absorption bleaching in tunneling biquantum well structures. A tunneling biquantum well consists of a series of narrow and wide wells. Recovery time was reduced to 1 ps using 1.7-nm-thick tunneling barriers, three orders of magnitude shorter than the few nanoseconds recovery due to radiative recombination. This is the fastest tunneling process observed to date.
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