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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Abstract

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 languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)852-855
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume69
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 1992

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  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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