TY - JOUR
T1 - Interaction-induced polarization rotation in anisotropic semiconductor quantum wells
AU - Binder, R.
PY - 1997/6/9
Y1 - 1997/6/9
N2 - It is shown that the ultrafast coherent nonlinear optical effect of interaction-induced polarization rotation can be used to identify and study interaction processes in many-body systems. In the theoretical example presented here, signatures of coherent exciton-exciton interactions are identified in polarization trajectories in Poincaré’s Cartesian complex plane of polarization, which is used to visualize the differential polarization rotation (or, alternatively, the polarization of the reflected light) of femtosecond light pulses in uniaxially strained quantum wells. Interaction processes are found to affect significantly the polarization trajectories, including their symmetry properties.
AB - It is shown that the ultrafast coherent nonlinear optical effect of interaction-induced polarization rotation can be used to identify and study interaction processes in many-body systems. In the theoretical example presented here, signatures of coherent exciton-exciton interactions are identified in polarization trajectories in Poincaré’s Cartesian complex plane of polarization, which is used to visualize the differential polarization rotation (or, alternatively, the polarization of the reflected light) of femtosecond light pulses in uniaxially strained quantum wells. Interaction processes are found to affect significantly the polarization trajectories, including their symmetry properties.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.4466
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.4466
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031560885
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 78
SP - 4466
EP - 4469
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
IS - 23
ER -