Propagation-induced escape from adiabatic following in a semiconductor

P. A. Harten; A. Knorr; J. P. Sokoloff; F. Brown De Colstoun; S. G. Lee; R. Jin; E. M. Wright; G. Khitrova; H. M. Gibbs; S. W. Koch; N. Peyghambarian

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.852

Propagation-induced escape from adiabatic following in a semiconductor

P. A. Harten, A. Knorr, J. P. Sokoloff, F. Brown De Colstoun, S. G. Lee, R. Jin, E. M. Wright, G. Khitrova, H. M. Gibbs, S. W. Koch, N. Peyghambarian

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Breakup of a below-resonance femtosecond pulse is observed in a room-temperature GaAs/AlGaAs multiple-quantum-well waveguide using cross-correlation techniques. The breakup is due to neither self-induced transparency nor temporal solitons. Instead, calculations based on the coupled semiconductor Maxwell-Bloch equations show that coherent self-phase-modulation during propagation drives the system out of the initial adiabatic following regime into excitation density oscillations and eventually pulse-shape modulations.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	852-855
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	69
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.852
State	Published - 1992

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