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DEPHASING OF EXCITONS AND PHASE COHERENT PHOTOREFRACTIVITY IN ZnSe QUANTUM WELLS

Suvranta K. Tripathy

Published Jan 1, 2006• 0 citations
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Abstract

Spectrally resolved and time-integrated degenerate four-wave mixing (FWM) experiments with ultra-short pulses have been used to investigate the relaxation times and coherent interactions of excitons in the Boltzmann and in the quantum kinetic regime in ZnSe single quantum wells.Three-pulse FWM experiments using 100 fs pulses in a 10 nm thick ZnSe/ZnMgSe single quantum well reveal nearly equal zero-density dephasing rates for coherences between + σ and - σ heavy-and/or light-hole exciton states as compared to the dephasing rate of the interband coherence between these states and the ground state.The measurements also demonstrate that exciton-exciton scattering destroys the phase coherence between heavy-and light-hole excitons about three times more effectively than the coherence between + σ and + σ heavy-hole excitons.The different coherent nonlinear signals obtained in a three-beam FWM experiment are explained and reproduced by numerical calculations of the optical Bloch equations for a ten-level model including excitation induced dephasing (EID).Two-beam FWM experiments using 30 fs pulses on a 10 nm ZnSe quantum well reveal marked quantum beats and a pronounced non-exponential decay for delay times smaller ~500 fs.The pronounced peak at pulse overlap is attributed to rapid destructive interference of the created polarization and to spin dependent quantum kinetic effects caused by the transient formation of an electron-hole (eh) pair grating.The three-beam FWM trace shows a bi-exponential decay which is attributed to a nonlinear polarization that is caused by the interaction of polarization 3 k with both an exciton grating and an eh-pair grating.Model calculations using the OBEs of a two level system that includes ∑ -+

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