CHI(5) SIGNATURE IN THE 4-WAVE-MIXING SIGNAL FROM A GAAS/AL0.3GA0.7AS SUPERLATTICE

被引:38
作者
BARTELS, G
AXT, VM
VICTOR, K
STAHL, A
LEISCHING, P
KOHLER, K
机构
[1] RHEIN WESTFAL TH AACHEN,INST HALBLEITERTECH 2,D-52056 AACHEN,GERMANY
[2] FRAUNHOFER INST APPL SOLID STATE PHYS,D-79108 FREIBURG,GERMANY
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1995年 / 51卷 / 16期
关键词
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevB.51.11217
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
We analyze coherent beats with a period corresponding to the biexciton binding energy in time-integrated four-wave-mixing experiments in a GaAs/Al0.3Ga0.7As superlattice at high excitation densities. Theoretical and experimental evidence is presented that the beating in the decay is a fifth-order process in the electric field, and therefore χ(5) contributions to the four-wave-mixing signal in the 2k2-k1 direction have to be considered for a qualitative interpretation of the measured data. In order to model the experiment we use a microscopic dynamic density-matrix theory in a real-space representation. © 1995 The American Physical Society.
引用
收藏
页码:11217 / 11220
页数:4
相关论文
共 32 条
[1]  
AXT VM, 1993, Z PHYS B, V93, P205
[2]  
AXT VM, 1993, Z PHYS B, V93, P195
[3]  
AXT VM, IN PRESS PHYS STAT B
[4]   EXCITON SPIN DYNAMICS IN GAAS HETEROSTRUCTURES [J].
BARAD, S ;
BARJOSEPH, I .
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 1992, 68 (03) :349-352
[5]   INFLUENCE OF EXCITON-EXCITON INTERACTIONS ON THE COHERENT OPTICAL-RESPONSE IN GAAS QUANTUM-WELLS [J].
BOTT, K ;
HELLER, O ;
BENNHARDT, D ;
CUNDIFF, ST ;
THOMAS, P ;
MAYER, EJ ;
SMITH, GO ;
ECCLESTON, R ;
KUHL, J ;
PLOOG, K .
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 1993, 48 (23) :17418-17426
[6]   4-WAVE-MIXING STUDIES OF QUANTUM-WELL EXCITONS IN A MAGNETIC-FIELD [J].
CARMEL, O ;
BARJOSEPH, I .
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 1993, 47 (12) :7606-7609
[7]   OPTICAL INVESTIGATION OF BIEXCITONS AND BOUND EXCITONS IN GAAS QUANTUM WELLS [J].
CHARBONNEAU, S ;
STEINER, T ;
THEWALT, MLW ;
KOTELES, ES ;
CHI, JY ;
ELMAN, B .
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 1988, 38 (05) :3583-3586
[8]   BIEXCITON FORMATION IN GAAS/ALXGA1-XAS MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELLS - AN OPTICAL INVESTIGATION [J].
CINGOLANI, R ;
CHEN, Y ;
PLOOG, K .
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 1988, 38 (18) :13478-13481
[9]   BIEXCITONIC CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEGENERATE-4-WAVE-MIXING SIGNAL FROM A GAAS/ALXGA1-XAS QUANTUM-WELL [J].
FEUERBACHER, BF ;
KUHL, J ;
PLOOG, K .
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 1991, 43 (03) :2439-2441
[10]   BIEXCITONIC EFFECTS IN TRANSIENT NONLINEAR-OPTICAL EXPERIMENTS IN QUANTUM-WELLS [J].
FINKELSTEIN, G ;
BARAD, S ;
CARMEL, O ;
BARJOSEPH, I ;
LEVINSON, Y .
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 1993, 47 (19) :12964-12967