• DocumentCode
    1690924
  • Title

    Ultrafast coherent manipulation of a THz-intersubband polarization in a voltage-controlled single quantum well

  • Author

    Wagner, M. ; Helm, M. ; Sherwin, M.S. ; Stehr, D.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Ion Beam Phys. & Mater. Res., Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Sub-picosecond terahertz pulses are used to refresh or switch off the macroscopic intersubband polarization of a quantum well at low temperature. This coherent switching is directly observed in the time-domain and agrees with model calculations.
  • Keywords
    light coherence; quantum wells; terahertz wave spectra; time-domain analysis; coherent switching; macroscopic intersubband polarization; subpicosecond terahertz pulses; terahertz-intersubband polarization; time-domain; ultrafast coherent manipulation; voltage-controlled single quantum well; Mathematical model; Optical amplifiers; Optical polarization; Optical pulses; Optical switches; Time domain analysis; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6327073