THz oscillations in the optical emission of a semiconductor microcavity

Author

Koch, Martin ; Shah, J. ; Wang, Huifang ; Damen, T.C. ; Jan, W.Y. ; Cunningham, John E.

Author_Institution

AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

2-7 June 1996

Firstpage

384

Abstract

Summary form only given. The ultrafast optical emission of semiconductor microcavities has attracted considerable interest recently. Reported observations include coherent vacuum Rabi oscillations after weak resonant optical excitation, the emission of single pulses after nonresonant optical pumping, and relaxation oscillations after electrical pumping. We report here the first investigation of femtosecond time-resolved emission from a semiconductor microcavity resonantly excited with intense femtosecond pulses.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; infrared sources; laser beam effects; optical pumping; optical resonators; oscillations; resonant states; semiconductor materials; THz oscillations; coherent vacuum Rabi oscillations; electrical pumping; femtosecond time-resolved emission; intense femtosecond pulses; nonresonant optical pumping; optical emission; relaxation oscillations; resonantly excited; semiconductor microcavity; single pulse emission; ultrafast optical emission; weak resonant optical excitation; Laser excitation; Microcavities; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Pump lasers; Resonance; Stimulated emission; Surface emitting lasers; Ultrafast optics; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-443-2

Type

conf

Filename

864823