DETECTION OF BLOCH OSCILLATIONS IN A SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICE BY TIME-RESOLVED TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY AND DEGENERATE 4-WAVE-MIXING

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WASCHKE, C [1 ]
LEISCHING, P [1 ]
BOLIVAR, PH [1 ]
SCHWEDLER, R [1 ]
BRUGGEMANN, F [1 ]
ROSKOS, HG [1 ]
LEO, K [1 ]
KURZ, H [1 ]
KOHLER, K [1 ]
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[1] FRAUNHOFER INST APPL SOLID STATE PHYS,D-79108 FREIBURG,GERMANY
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10.1016/0038-1101(94)90417-0
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
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We have studied the spatial dynamics of coherently excited wave packets of charge carriers in a semiconductor superlattice structure by both time-resolved THz spectroscopy and degenerate four-wave mixing. In the Wannier-Stark bias regime, we observe electron Bloch oscillations with a frequency that depends linearly on the electric bias field and can be tuned between a few hundred GHz and 5 THz.
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