POLARIZATION DEPENDENCE OF HEAVY-HOLE AND LIGHT-HOLE QUANTUM BEATS

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作者
SCHMITTRINK, S
BENNHARDT, D
HEUCKEROTH, V
THOMAS, P
HARING, P
MAIDORN, G
BAKKER, H
LEO, K
KIM, DS
SHAH, JD
KOHLER, K
机构
[1] UNIV MARBURG,CTR MAT SCI,W-3550 MARBURG,GERMANY
[2] RHEIN WESTFAL TH AACHEN,INST SEMICOND ELECTR,W-5100 AACHEN,GERMANY
[3] AT&T BELL LABS,MURRAY HILL,NJ 07974
[4] FRAUNHOFER INST APPL SOLID STATE PHYS,W-7800 FREIBURG,GERMANY
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1992年 / 46卷 / 16期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.46.10460
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T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Simultaneous excitation of heavy- and light-hole quantum-well excitons with linearly polarized ultrashort laser pulses results in oscillating four-wave-mixing and pump-probe signals. These are elliptically polarized, except for exactly parallel and perpendicular incident polarizations, for which they are also linearly polarized. In the latter case, the heavy- and light-hole components are in phase or out of phase, respectively.
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页码:10460 / 10463
页数:4
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