Coherent Control of Photocurrent Generation in Bulk Semiconductors
- 4 March 1996
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 76 (10), 1703-1706
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.76.1703
Abstract
We show theoretically that interband transitions in a bulk semiconductor via coherent one- and two-photon absorption leads to the formation of an electrical current whose direction is controlled by the relative phase of the beams. The phenomenon can occur in centrosymmetric and noncentrosymmetric materials; easily measurable currents are predicted for GaAs under realistic experimental conditions.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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