Collective Effects of Excitons in Multiple-Quantum-Well Bragg and Anti-Bragg Structures
- 27 May 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 76 (22), 4199-4202
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.76.4199
Abstract
Femtosecond degenerate four-wave mixing is used to investigate collective excitonic effects in radiatively coupled semiconductor multiple-quantum-well Bragg and anti-Bragg structures. The experimental and theoretical analysis of Bragg structures shows that the light-induced coupling causes a faster signal decay for increasing quantum-well numbers. For anti-Bragg structures, the predicted splitting of the excitonic resonances is observed in the four-wave-mixing spectrum causing quantum beats in the time-integrated signal.Keywords
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