• DocumentCode
    1660169
  • Title

    Femtosecond carrier dynamics in Ge/SiGe quantum wells

  • Author

    Claussen, S. ; Tang, L. ; Roth, J. ; Fidaner, O. ; Latif, S. ; Miller, D.A.B.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We resolve photoinduced changes in carrier populations of Ge SiGe quantum wells using femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy. Absorption transients 400 fs indicate rapid GammararrL intervalley scattering that may explain exciton linewidth and suggest saturable absorber applications.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; excitons; germanium; optical pumping; optical saturable absorption; semiconductor quantum wells; silicon compounds; time resolved spectroscopy; Ge-SiGe; Ge-SiGe quantum wells; absorption transients; carrier dynamics; exciton linewidth; femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy; intervalley scattering; saturable absorber; Absorption; Bleaching; Fiber lasers; Germanium silicon alloys; Laser excitation; Optical pulses; Polarization; Probes; Pump lasers; Silicon germanium;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics, 2007 4th IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Tokyo
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-0934-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GROUP4.2007.4347712
  • Filename
    4347712