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Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Nonlinearity of biexciton waves in CuCl

Yuri P. Svirko, Makoto Kuwata‐Gonokami

Published Aug 21, 2004• 3 citations
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Abstract

We propose an experimental scheme to evaluate the intrinsic anharmonicity of the biexciton ensemble by extending the conventional four-wave mixing technique to coherent biexciton waves, which can be prepared by two-photon absorption of ultrashort optical pulses. The anharmonicity originates from the two-body interaction of the bosonic quasi-particles at low densities and leads to Kerr-type nonlinearity for the coherent biexcitonic waves generated in the crystal. We discuss the feasibility of determining the two-body biexciton interaction energy in CuCl by measuring the anharmonicity of the biexcitonic ensemble.

DOI
10.1088/0953-8984/16/35/013

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