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Physica status solidi. C, Conferences and critical reviews/Physica status solidi. C, Current topics in solid state physics

Two‐photon coherent control of dark orthoexcitons in Cu2O

Kosuke Yoshioka, Makoto Kuwata‐Gonokami

Published Jul 5, 2006• 0 citations
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Abstract We investigate experimentally the two‐photon coherence exhibited by optically forbidden exciton states in the bulk semiconductor Cu2O. Two‐photon coherent control is achieved by using phase‐locked optical pulse pairs. Very long dephasing times and a fine energy splittings of the order of µ‐eV are observed. (© 2006 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

DOI
10.1002/pssc.200668061

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