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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Electromagnetically induced transparency-like exciton nonlinear absorption in quantum dots

Hideki Gotoh, Hidehiko Kamada, Tadashi Saitoh, Hiroaki Ando, Jiro Temmyo

Published Jan 1, 2004• 0 citations
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Abstract

The absorption properties of an exciton-biexciton system are examined for quantum dots by single-dot photoluminescence spectroscopy. A strong exciton-biexciton coherent interaction causes electromagnetically induced transparency-like nonlinear exciton absorption.
DOI
10.1364/iqec.2004.imp6

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