Phase evolution of solitonlike optical pulses during excitonic Rabi flopping in a semiconductor
2005
We demonstrate that the temporal pulse phase remains essentially unaltered before separate phase
characteristics are developed when propagating high-intensity pulses coherently on the exciton resonance
of an optically thick semiconductor. This behavior is a clear manifestation of self-induced transmission
and pulse breakup into solitonlike pulses due to Rabi flopping of the carrier density. Experiments using a
novel fast-scan cross-correlation frequency-resolved optical gating (XFROG) method are in good
agreement with numerical calculations based on the semiconductor Bloch equations.
Keywords:
- Correction
- Source
- Cite
- Save
- Machine Reading By IdeaReader
0
References
12
Citations
NaN
KQI