Room-temperature optical nonlinearities in GaAs

Y. H. Lee; A. Chavez-Pirson; S. W. Koch; H. M. Gibbs; S. H. Park; J. Morhange; A. Jeffery; N. Peyghambarian; L. Banyai; A. C. Gossard; W. Wiegmann

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.2446

Room-temperature optical nonlinearities in GaAs

Y. H. Lee, A. Chavez-Pirson, S. W. Koch, H. M. Gibbs, S. H. Park, J. Morhange, A. Jeffery, N. Peyghambarian, L. Banyai, A. C. Gossard, W. Wiegmann

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We report the first systematic study of the frequency dependence of optical nonlinearities of bulk GaAs at room temperature. In contrast to the previous understanding, band filling and plasma screening of Coulomb enhancement of continuum states are found to be the dominant contributions to the dispersive optical nonlinearities under quasi steady-state excitations. The partly phenomenological semiconductor plasma theory is in good agreement with the experimental data.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2446-2449
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	57
Issue number	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.2446
State	Published - 1986

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