• DocumentCode
    2655733
  • Title

    Dephasing of the LH-HH exciton Raman coherence in GaAs quantum wells: distinguishing between phonon and carrier scattering

  • Author

    VanEngen Spivey, Amelia G. ; Borca, Camelia N. ; Cundiff, Steven T.

  • Author_Institution
    Joint Inst. for Lab. Astrophys., Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    22-27 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    1917
  • Abstract
    Three-beam four-wave mixing shows anti-correlated scattering of HH and LH excitons in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells, suggesting that exciton-phonon scattering dominates the exciton dephasing. The correlation increases at higher excitation densities.
  • Keywords
    Raman spectra; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; multiwave mixing; phonons; semiconductor quantum wells; transport processes; GaAs-AlGaAs; LH-HH exciton dephasing; Raman coherence; anticorrelated scattering; carrier scattering; excitation density; exciton-phonon scattering; phonon scattering; quantum well; three-beam four-wave mixing; Delay; Excitons; Four-wave mixing; Gallium arsenide; Light scattering; Nonlinear optics; Optical scattering; Particle scattering; Phonons; Raman scattering;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2005. QELS '05
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-796-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/QELS.2005.1549327
  • Filename
    1549327