Abstract
A new method, the time-resolved nonlinear differential polarimetry, was developed to analyze the ultrafast exciton-exciton interactions in uniaxially strained quantum wells. Semiconductor GaAs quantum wells which exhibited dichroism and birefringence in the spectral vicinity of the heavy hole (hh) exciton resonance were used in the study. The strong light pulse was numerically simulated to compute for the induced nonlinear optical polarization. Results that contain only Pauli blocking effects were seen to differ from those containing exciton interaction effects resulting from the Coulomb interaction.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages | 38-39 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| State | Published - 1997 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1997 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science, QELS - Baltimore, MD, USA Duration: May 18 1997 → May 23 1997 |
Other
| Other | Proceedings of the 1997 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science, QELS |
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| City | Baltimore, MD, USA |
| Period | 5/18/97 → 5/23/97 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Physics and Astronomy