Temperature dependence of the intraexcitonic AC Stark effect in semiconductor quantum wells
Temperature dependence of the intraexcitonic AC Stark effect in semiconductor quantum wells
Wagner, M.; Teich, M.; Helm, M.; Stehr, D.
Abstract
We have investigated the temperature-dependent, intraexcitonic AC Stark effect that manifests itself in a line splitting of the heavy-hole 1s exciton transition in a GaAs/AlGaAs multi quantum well when the 1s-2p intraexciton transition is driven by intense THz light. The observed wavelength-dependent splitting at Helium temperature can still be distinguished at elevated temperatures up to 200 K. Although the thermal energy exceeds the exciton binding energy by a factor of 1.7, thermal exciton ionization influences the coherent nonlinear effect only indirectly via thermal line broadening. With a threefold transmission change on ultrafast timescales in a region accessible to Peltier-cooling the scheme could be promising for optical modulators.
Keywords: quantum well; intraexcitonic AC Stark effect; FEL; THz; temperature-dependent
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- Strahlungsquelle ELBE DOI: 10.17815/jlsrf-2-58
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Applied Physics Letters 100(2012), 051109
DOI: 10.1063/1.3681399
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