FEMTOSECOND COHERENT SPECTROSCOPY OF ETCHED QUANTUM WIRES

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作者
MAYER, EJ
WHITE, JO
SMITH, GO
LAGE, H
HEITMANN, D
PLOOG, K
KUHL, J
机构
[1] Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, D-70506 Stuttgart
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1994年 / 49卷 / 04期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.49.2993
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
We report measurements of the homogeneous linewidth of an excitonic resonance in a quantum wirer Transient time-integrated and time-resolved four-wave-mixing experiments are used to obtain the homogeneous linewidth by measuring the dephasing time. A biexponential decay is observed and attributed to the presence of free and localized excitons. The homogeneous linewidth for both species is measured as a function of temperature and excitation density. Quantum beats are observed due to interference between the m = 1 and m = 2 center-of-mass-quantized n = 1 heavy-hole exciton states.
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