Adaptive feedback control of ultrafast semiconductor nonlinearities

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Kunde, J [1 ]
Baumann, B
Arlt, S
Morier-Genoud, F
Siegner, U
Keller, U
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[1] ETH Honggerberg, Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Inst Quantum Elect, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
[2] Phys Tech Bundesanstalt, D-38116 Braunschweig, Germany
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10.1063/1.1288603
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We experimentally demonstrate that adaptive feedback optical pulse shaping can be used to control ultrafast semiconductor nonlinearities. The control scheme is based on an evolutionary algorithm, which directs the modulation of the spectral phase of 20 fs laser pulses. The algorithm has optimized the broadband semiconductor continuum nonlinearity measured in differential transmission experiments. Our results show that insight into light-semiconductor interaction is obtained from the optimum laser pulse shape even if the interaction is too complex to predict this shape a priori. Moreover, we demonstrate that adaptive feedback control can substantially enhance ultrafast semiconductor nonlinearities by almost a factor 4. (C) 2000 American Institute of Physics. [S0003-6951(00)00733-6].
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