Abstract
A detailed numerical study of the third-order nonlinear optical susceptibilities (χ(3)) of semiconductor quantum wells is presented. The dependence of χ(3) on material parameters (electron-hole mass ratio and exciton linewidths), on the light polarization configuration (co- and countercircularly polarized) and on the spectral configuration is discussed. The goal of this study is to map out the nonlinear phase shift per quantum well and a related figure of merit caused by quasi-resonant excitonic and biexcitonic nonlinearities induced by picosecond light pulses. The study is based on the dynamics-controlled truncation formalism and evaluated under the assumption that only 1s-heavy-hole excitons contribute to the nonlinearities. It includes all correlation effects (exciton-exciton scattering in the singlet and triplet channels and coherent biexciton formation in the singlet channel) that contribute within the coherent excitonic χ(3) regime.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 2164-2174 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2004 |
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Material and light-pulse parameter dependence of the nonlinear optical susceptibilities in the coherent χ(3) regime in semiconductor quantum wells. / Takayama, Ryu; Kwong, Nai-Hang; Rumyantsev, Ilya; Kuwata-Gonokami, Makoto; Binder, Rudolf.
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T1 - Material and light-pulse parameter dependence of the nonlinear optical susceptibilities in the coherent χ(3) regime in semiconductor quantum wells
AU - Takayama, Ryu
AU - Kwong, Nai-Hang
AU - Rumyantsev, Ilya
AU - Kuwata-Gonokami, Makoto
AU - Binder, Rudolf
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - A detailed numerical study of the third-order nonlinear optical susceptibilities (χ(3)) of semiconductor quantum wells is presented. The dependence of χ(3) on material parameters (electron-hole mass ratio and exciton linewidths), on the light polarization configuration (co- and countercircularly polarized) and on the spectral configuration is discussed. The goal of this study is to map out the nonlinear phase shift per quantum well and a related figure of merit caused by quasi-resonant excitonic and biexcitonic nonlinearities induced by picosecond light pulses. The study is based on the dynamics-controlled truncation formalism and evaluated under the assumption that only 1s-heavy-hole excitons contribute to the nonlinearities. It includes all correlation effects (exciton-exciton scattering in the singlet and triplet channels and coherent biexciton formation in the singlet channel) that contribute within the coherent excitonic χ(3) regime.
AB - A detailed numerical study of the third-order nonlinear optical susceptibilities (χ(3)) of semiconductor quantum wells is presented. The dependence of χ(3) on material parameters (electron-hole mass ratio and exciton linewidths), on the light polarization configuration (co- and countercircularly polarized) and on the spectral configuration is discussed. The goal of this study is to map out the nonlinear phase shift per quantum well and a related figure of merit caused by quasi-resonant excitonic and biexcitonic nonlinearities induced by picosecond light pulses. The study is based on the dynamics-controlled truncation formalism and evaluated under the assumption that only 1s-heavy-hole excitons contribute to the nonlinearities. It includes all correlation effects (exciton-exciton scattering in the singlet and triplet channels and coherent biexciton formation in the singlet channel) that contribute within the coherent excitonic χ(3) regime.
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U2 - 10.1364/JOSAB.21.002164
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VL - 21
SP - 2164
EP - 2174
JO - Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
JF - Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
SN - 0740-3224
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