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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Width dependent disorder and many-body effects in gallium arsenide quantum wells

Cesar Perez, John L. Reno, Steve Cundiff

Published Jan 1, 2020• 0 citations
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Abstract

We study many body effects and disorder in both narrow and wide quantum wells with two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy. The inhomogeneous linewidth, homogeneous linewidth, and exictation induced dephasing depend on width in AlGaAs/GaAs quantum wells.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2020.jw2f.2

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