Polarization- and spin-dependent ultrafast optical nonlinearities of Bragg-spaced quantum wells

Author

Johnston, Wesley J. ; Prineas, John P. ; Smirl, Arthur L. ; Nguyen, Dan T. ; Kwong, N.H. ; Binder, R. ; Khitrova, Galina ; Gibbs, Hyatt M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Iowa Univ., Iowa City, IA

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Spin- and polarization-dependent ultrafast blue shifts, transient gain and self-wave-mixing are observed in Bragg-spaced InGaAs/GaAs quantum wells. The data are in agreement with a microscopic theory.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; gallium arsenide; high-speed optical techniques; indium compounds; multiwave mixing; reflectivity; semiconductor quantum wells; spectral line shift; Bragg-spaced quantum wells; InGaAs-GaAs; four wave mixing; microscopic theory; polarization-dependent ultrafast blue shift; reflectivity; self-wave-mixing; spin-dependent ultrafast blue shift; transient gain; transmissivity; ultrafast optical nonlinearities; Gallium arsenide; Indium gallium arsenide; Nonlinear optics; Optical polarization; Optical pumping; Optical resonators; Probes; Pulse measurements; Reflectivity; Ultrafast optics; (190.5970) Semiconductor nonlinear optics including MQW; (300.6470) Spectroscopy, semiconductors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4572671