Spin-sensitive bleaching and monopolar spin orientation in quantum wells

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Ganichev, SD [1 ]
Danilov, SN
Bel'kov, VV
Ivchenko, EL
Bichler, M
Wegscheider, W
Weiss, D
Prettl, W
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[1] Univ Regensburg, Inst Expt & Angew Phys, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany
[2] RAS, AF Ioffe Physicotech Inst, St Petersburg 194021, Russia
[3] Tech Univ Munich, Walter Schottky Inst, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.057401
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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Spin-sensitive bleaching of the absorption of far-infrared radiation has been observed in p-type GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well structures. The absorption of circularly polarized radiation saturates at lower intensities than that of linearly polarized light due to monopolar spin orientation in the first heavy-hole subband. Spin relaxation times of holes in p-type material in the range of tens of ps were derived from the intensity dependence of the absorption.
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