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Physical Review Letters

Ultrafast Coherent Control and Destruction of Excitons in Quantum Wells

Albert P. Heberle, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Klaus Köhler

Published Sep 25, 1995• 404 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate the coherent destruction of photogenerated excitons in semiconductor quantum wells within a few hundred femtoseconds of their excitation. Coherent control of carrier dynamics is achieved with phase-locked pairs of 100 fs infrared pulses. The technique induces an optical response which is faster than the inverse of the exciton linewidth superseding Fourier limits for a single pulse. Energy selectivity enables the coherent transfer of angular momentum between hole states. Such phase-tailored pulse trains can be utilized to investigate the generation process and intermediate virtual states in quantum structures.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.75.2598

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In this paper, we report ultrafast manipulation of coherent excitons in quantum-wells using phase locked pulse sequence prepared by a frequency domain shaping technique. The pulse shaping system with double liquid crystal spatial light modulator (SLM) and the Ti3+-sapphire laser are used to generate phase-locked pulses. Ultrafast coherent control of exciton population and exciton polarization is demonstrated by the observation of the reflectivity-change in the pump-probe and the diffracted power in the degenerate-four-wave-mixing measurements. In the single quantum wells, good coherent control characteristics with 87% of coherent carrier destruction is demonstrated at low excitation power of 0.15 mW (approximately 1.1 X 1010 photons/cm2). Also the preliminary manipulation of the exciton population is demonstrated by the phase locked multi-pulses. In case of coupled quantum-wells, the modulation of SLM is carefully controlled and coherent control of both the exciton population and the polarization are demonstrated in the two different coupled quantum well samples.
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