| Issue |
EPL
Volume 81, Number 2, January 2008
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 27003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/81/27003 | |
| Published online | 06 December 2007 | |
Large optical gain from four-wave mixing instabilities in semiconductor quantum wells
College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona - Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Received:
13
August
2007
Accepted:
9
November
2007
Based on a microscopic many-particle theory, we predict large optical gain in the probe and background-free four-wave mixing directions caused by excitonic instabilities in semiconductor quantum wells. For a single quantum well with radiative-decay limited dephasing in a typical pump-probe setup we discuss the microscopic driving mechanisms and polarization and frequency dependence of these instabilities.
PACS: 71.35.-y – Excitons and related phenomena / 78.47.+p – Time-resolved optical spectroscopies and other ultrafast optical measurements in condensed matter / 42.65.Sf – Dynamics of nonlinear optical systems; optical instabilities, optical chaos and complexity, and optical spatio-temporal dynamics
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