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Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals, and Applications. Technical Digest. Postconference Edition. TOPS Vol.46 (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37174)

Role of incoherent excitons and biexcitons in the nonlinear coherent optical response in ZnSe MQWs

K. Tanaka, S. Hataoka, Ryohei Wakai, Ichiro Tanahashi

Published Nov 7, 2002• 0 citations
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Abstract

Femtosecond spectrally resolved four-wave mixing technique was applied to study many-body interactions of excitons. We observed decrease of the effective transition dipole moment and excitation-induced dephasing both in exciton and biexciton resonance.
DOI
10.1109/nlo.2000.883586

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