Observation of the ultrafast two-photon coherent biexciton oscillation in a GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs multiple quantum well

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Ferrio, KB
Steel, DG
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[1] H. M. Randall Laboratory of Physics, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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10.1103/PhysRevB.54.R5231
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T [工业技术];
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Polarization-dependent heterodyne four-wave-mixing measurements with a phase-conjugate Michelson interferometer reveal a macroscopic nonradiative 770-THz oscillation in the nonlinear optical susceptibility of GaAs multiple quantum wells. The oscillation is interpreted as the temporal evolution of the two-photon nonradiative biexcitonic coherence.
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