FAR-INFRARED SATURATION SPECTROSCOPY OF A SINGLE SQUARE-WELL

被引:31
作者
CRAIG, K
FELIX, CL
HEYMAN, JN
MARKELZ, AG
SHERWIN, MS
CAMPMAN, KL
HOPKINS, PF
GOSSARD, AC
机构
[1] UCSB,DEPT ENGN,SANTA BARBARA,CA 93106
[2] CTR FREE ELECTRON LASER STUDIES,SANTA BARBARA,CA 93106
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10.1088/0268-1242/9/5S/061
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We have performed saturation spectroscopy measurements of the lowest intersubband transition in a single 400 angstrom GaAs/Al0.3Ga0.7As modulation-doped square quantum well. We couple intense tunable far-infrared radiation from the Santa Barbara free electron laser into our sample using an edge-coupling technique and measure absorption as a function of frequency and intensity. Saturation and frequency shifts in the absorption line are clearly observed. We attribute the frequency shifts to reductions in the many-body depolarization shift. From our preliminary measurements, we estimate the intersubband relaxation time to be 600 ps to within a factor of three.
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页码:627 / 629
页数:3
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