Publikationsrepositorium - Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

Using intense, spectrally narrow terahertz pulses from the free-electron laser facility FELBE in Dresden, Germany, we have investigated exciton population dynamics in III-V QWs and single quantum dots. To this end, carriers are optically injected by picosecond near-infrared pulses to populate the lowest excitonic level. Using narrowband terahertz pulses, excitons are resonantly excited into higher levels. Time-dependent photoluminescence measurements based on a streak camera system and on time-correlated photon counting, respectively, then allow us to study the transient population of dipole-allowed higher exciton levels and to access the relaxation dynamics.